On Sun, March 25, 2007 11:29 pm, Bob La Quey wrote: > On 3/25/07, Christian Seberino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> You didn't answer the question..unless you think Christianity teaches >> one >> to be sexually repressed, superstitious and unreasonable? Can you show >> me >> where in the New Testament it says that? I'm not sure your own comments >> are, to use your words, "conclusions of reason". >> >> Chris >> > > The problem Chris, is not the New Testament.
The problem definitely _is_ the new testament. Read Paul's epistles. He was anti-sex, anti-woman, and a huge blue-nose. Sheesh, it's all in the book, plain as the nose on your face ... why should I even have to argue it? 'Course anyone who choses to get his/her life wisdom from the rantings of a 2,000 year old minor apostate rabbi deserves pretty much what he gets. And BTW, before you dump a well deserved load on the Puritans, please don't ignore the thousand years of Catholic (East and West) anti-sexual woman-hating tradition, a tradition still in force today. Catholicism is really so good about so many things, it's curious they keep that renounce-the-flesh thing going. Oh, well, as with any large organization (the CIA, Boy Scouts, Mafia/RIAA -- OK, maybe not the last two), these are the good 'uns and then the others. > The problem is the > Puritans who decide following Calvin to interpret it in a narrow way and > who believe they have a right to impose their beliefs on the rest of us. > > And yes they do preach sexual repression. I say, "Fuck them!" > > I am _not_ a Christian, but I could be if it were not for the requirement > that I believe in Christ. That entire scheme seems to me to be such an > incredibly bizarre set of scenarios as to require of me a complete denial > of reality. Maaybe God is just playing a big joke on us all and so asking > that we believe absurdities. Could be, but I doubt it. > > Look, I was raised on the Christian stuff. ... Sorry but it makes next to > no > sense to me. It has never caused me anything but pain. > > Imaginative compassion though, is the common thread that all of the > religions > in the world promote. This is for me the core of all of these systems. > > So at the end of it all I believe they are all the same. They try to > teach us > to love and understand one another ... not an easy thing to do. > > BobLQ > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
