Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 12:17 AM 11/26/02 -0500, John D. Giorgis wrote:
Well, if you define theocracy to include the above, then you simply have
created the new problem of defining the word that distinguishes the
viewpoint of desiring an immediate and earthly theocracy from an
William T Goodall wrote:
What of people who hold pacifist religous views?
Using Osama bin Laden to make a statement about the general
characteristics
of religion is beyond ludicrous.
Is it? Quakers and other pacifist religions are a tiny minority. The
'general characteristics' of
Ronald Blankenship wrote:
Define theocracy.
Frex, Christians believe that at some point in the future,
Jesus Christ will
return to Earth as its ruler.
g
In which case, wouldn't the belief that the entire Creation is God's
doing and, thus, under Her ultimate control be defined as a
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Ritu wrote:
Ronald Blankenship wrote:
Define theocracy.
Frex, Christians believe that at
Ronn Blankenship wrote:
(I won't quibble with you over the gender of deity at this
point. ;-) )
Nothing to quibble about there, sir. It's a simple fact. ;)
Btw, I meant to ask, what was the colour of the other half of that cat
of yours?
Ritu
GCU Hanumani-Sindoori?there goes a
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Ritu asked:
Ronn Blankenship wrote:
(I won't quibble with you over the gender of deity at this
Ronn Blankenship wrote:
Btw, I meant to ask, what was the colour of the other half
of that cat
of yours?
Other half? Not sure what you mean:
Of course you don't. My bad. :)
Your earlier mail had mentioned a half-kali dog. I somehow remembered a
cat.. :)
Ritu
GCU Oops!
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Ronn Blankenship wrote:
Btw, I meant to ask, what was the colour of the other half
of that cat
Ronn wrote:
Define theocracy.
Frex, Christians believe that at some point in the future, Jesus Christ
will
return to Earth as its ruler.
That should be some Christians There are a lot of different ways to
interpret the New Testament...
Reggie Bautista
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 01:57 PM 11/24/2002 -0600 The Fool wrote:
As long as there are people who believe these kinds of things, whether
they are christians, jews, islamists, hindus or whatever, (and I know
plenty of people with this kind of worldview personally), the
The Fool said:
And just how many unholy wars did the Popes reside over during the
dark ages Mr. Catholic?
Not an awful lot, I would've thought. It seems to me that the main
inter-religious wars during the Dark Ages in Europe were between
Merovingian France and the Muslim armies in Spain and
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 01:10 AM 11/25/2002 + William T Goodall wrote:
Is it? Quakers and other pacifist religions are a tiny minority. The
'general characteristics' of religion could be described with the
pacifists
as a footnote.[1]
[1] Just rebutting your 'beyond
The Fool wrote:
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 01:10 AM 11/25/2002 + William T Goodall wrote:
Is it? Quakers and other pacifist religions are a tiny minority. The
'general characteristics' of religion could be described with the
pacifists
as a footnote.[1]
[1]
In a message dated 11/25/2002 12:47:44 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
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The Fool said:
And just how many unholy wars did the Popes reside over during the
dark ages Mr. Catholic?
replying: Not an awful lot
I'd rather move up a few centuries.
Even Tilly tried
Julia said:
What percentage of muslims advocate theocracy? None of the ones I've
run into (admittedly, a very small sample) were interested in such.
I suppose that now's a bad time to launch my bid to become God-Emperor
of the Known Universe, right?
Rich
GSV There's Always Next Year
Richard Baker wrote:
Julia said:
What percentage of muslims advocate theocracy? None of the ones I've
run into (admittedly, a very small sample) were interested in such.
I suppose that now's a bad time to launch my bid to become God-Emperor
of the Known Universe, right?
:D
Julia said:
p.s. How large is the Known Universe?
A few tens of billions of light years across. It depends on a rather
flimsy ladder of distance measurements so I'm not sure exactly how big.
And how can you govern as God-Emperor without FTL communications?
I was planning to wave my arms in
In a message dated 11/25/2002 1:33:06 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was planning to wave my arms in the general direction of the night sky
and say I claim these worlds in the name of myself, Richard the First
and Last, God-Emperor of the Known Universe.
Pick
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Fool wrote:
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 01:10 AM 11/25/2002 + William T Goodall wrote:
Is it? Quakers and other pacifist religions are a tiny minority.
The
'general characteristics' of religion could be described
The Fool said:
The renasiance didn't happen until after the crusades, in which the
crusaders brought back with them a great deal of knowledge from the
greek and roman times.
I wasn't talking about the Italian renaissance though, but the time
before and during the Crusades. There wouldn't have
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The Fool said:
And just how many unholy wars did the Popes
In a message dated 11/25/2002 6:50:53 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Which, FWIW, was preserved by Muslim Arabs when Christians burned the
Library at Alexandria because its books were written by pagan Greeks.
? Was there more than one burning?
I thought it
At 08:57 PM 11/24/2002 -0600 Ronald Blankenship wrote:
[1] Just rebutting your 'beyond ludicrous' without claiming that
massacring
the heathen/infidel/non-believer is the normal pattern of theocracies.
But isn't correlating religion and theocracy something of a sterotype as
well?I think
At 01:48 PM 11/25/2002 -0600 The Fool wrote:
I think that only a small minority of the religious in the
world
today advocate theocracy.
What percentage of the population is muslim? What percent are JW's?
Well, how about all the Muslims that take the Koran literally when it says
There can be
At 01:32 PM 11/25/2002 -0600 The Fool wrote:
There are perhaps two major (and several tiny) christian sects [True
Belivers] that hold pacifist views.
The Amish.
The Jehovah Witness's
Well, the Catholic Church has nearly become pacificistic in recent
centuries. Pacifism is also a not
At 02:49 PM 11/25/2002 -0600 The Fool wrote:
What percentage of muslims advocate theocracy? None of the ones I've
run into (admittedly, a very small sample) were interested in such.
It's an islamic teaching. Wherever the evil of islam has gained a
toehold, islamic shariah has sprung up and
At 12:17 AM 11/26/02 -0500, John D. Giorgis wrote:
At 08:57 PM 11/24/2002 -0600 Ronald Blankenship wrote:
[1] Just rebutting your 'beyond ludicrous' without claiming that
massacring
the heathen/infidel/non-believer is the normal pattern of theocracies.
But isn't correlating religion and
At 01:57 PM 11/24/2002 -0600 The Fool wrote:
As long as there are people who believe these kinds of things, whether
they are christians, jews, islamists, hindus or whatever, (and I know
plenty of people with this kind of worldview personally), the human race
is headed for extinction. It is only a
on 24/11/02 11:45 pm, John D. Giorgis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 01:57 PM 11/24/2002 -0600 The Fool wrote:
As long as there are people who believe these kinds of things, whether
they are christians, jews, islamists, hindus or whatever, (and I know
plenty of people with this kind of
At 01:10 AM 11/25/2002 + William T Goodall wrote:
Is it? Quakers and other pacifist religions are a tiny minority. The
'general characteristics' of religion could be described with the pacifists
as a footnote.[1]
[1] Just rebutting your 'beyond ludicrous' without claiming that massacring
the
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