Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 01:05:57 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD logo... Message-ID: <3E9E6065.20D2C608@mindspring.com> References: <20030416104202.7271aed3.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> <3E9E1DBD.A5443B39@mindspring.com><3E9E536D.2D90D495@mindspring.com> <20030417004019.T601@znfgre.tberna.bet>
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Doug Barton wrote: > On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > > So, basically, Job's been charged, and he's put on trial over > > the charges, then acquitted. Sounds like God's "Attorney General" > > to me... > > Maybe I'm being too literal, but "The President's Attorney General" is > appointed by the president, to do the president's bidding. In Job, Satan > is acting on his own behalf, with the same kind of "lawsuit" that you'd > hear on an elementary school playground. :) "Yeah, I'm bad, but HE is > worse." Actually, that's not quite a correct interpretation; Job 1:8-12 specifically states that involving Job was God's idea, and he specifically deputizes Satan to act on his behalf (Job 1:12), to prove the rightiousness of his servant. In Job 1:16, he even lets Satan use "The fire of God", as his proxy (and again, in 2:6-7, with the Smiting, and all... goes on for a good 39 more chapters). So basically, the President lent Janet Reno BATF troops in order to test how American a taxpayer was, after swearing out an executive order making it all nice and legal... and there was a heck of a lot of collateral damage as a result. But that's OK, because the main suspect survived the arrest process in order to stand trial, remarried, and lived happily ever after. -- Terry
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