[FairfieldLife] ] Lost in your own mind

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Sent to a Christian who thought PokeMan was evil. From: Steve Wiglesworth Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 10:09 AM To: ' Subject: Lost in your own mind If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.-George Orwell "Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; Or he can, but does not want to; Or he cannot and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. But, if God both can and wants to abolish evil, Then how come evil in the world?"-Epicurus, 350-?270 BC "During many ages there were witches. The Bible said so. The Bible commanded that they should not be allowed to live. Therefore the Church, after doing its duty in but a lazy and indolent way for 800 years, gathered up its halters, thumbscrews, and firebrands, and set about its holy work in earnest. She worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One does not know whether to laugh or to cry."-Mark Twain, Bible Teaching and Religious Practice essay, "Europe and Elsewhere", 1923 "You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say "God is love," they will claim that *you* are taking things out of context!"-Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith" "You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that _we_ are the ones that need help?"-Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith" "Unless they know God and His warnings, they cannot understand the forces that have captivated children around the world. And if parents underestimate the psychological strategies behind its seductive mass marketing ploys, they are likely to dismiss the Pokemon craze as harmless fun and innocent fantasy. In reality, the problem is far more complex." Your words. This can also be said like this............. "Unless they know [The truth about God] and His [fallacies], they cannot understand the forces that have [disturbed] children around the world. And if parents underestimate the psychological strategies behind [the Church and] its seductive mass marketing ploys, they are likely to dismiss the [Christian] craze as harmless fun and innocent fantasy. In reality, the problem is far more complex." My words! "The Christian resolve to find the world evil and ugly has made the world evil and ugly." -Edgar Allen Poe To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.