From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 23 18:40: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6214637B405 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:40:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a133.otenet.gr [212.205.215.133]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f9O1duO21758; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 04:39:56 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9O1J5b35572; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 04:19:05 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 04:19:05 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Elden Fenison Cc: Brett Glass , FreeBSD-chat Subject: Re: Religions (was Re: helping victims of terror) Message-ID: <20011024041905.A35538@hades.hell.gr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011020213112.0489f2f0@localhost> <1003617187.3bd1fba3d31ff@webmail.neomedia.it> <4.3.2.7.2.20011020213112.0489f2f0@localhost> <20011022122517.D28419@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20011022121909.04230b70@localhost> <20011023152506.E10650@moondog.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011023152506.E10650@moondog.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-URL: http://labs.gr/~charon/ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 03:25:06PM -0700, Elden Fenison wrote: > * On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:32:17PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > > Including the commandment in the Old Testament to commit genocide? > > I wonder if you're quoting God's intructions to the Israelites when you > don't truly believe in God at all. (this doesn't seem valid to me) Quoting something is valid as long as the source of the quote can be indepently verified. The questions that one might have, whether it was really God or anyone else that originally 'commanded' for the texts to be written, is I fear a topic that has been rehashed billions of times on alt.atheism, soc.atheism and similar places. Nothing invalid with Brett's original quote, then. -giorgos I feel like going through the archives and counting references, to find the largest thread ever. This one sure seems like it. Are we going to keep it alive forever (thus, possibly rendering it God-like, in its immortality)? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message