Grimer wrote: > At 02:09 pm 09/06/2006 -0700, you wrote: >> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Akira Kawasaki) > >> 4. LIONS: WHY CERTAIN RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS GAIN FEW FOLLOWERS. >> According to a Reuters story out of Kiev, on Sunday evening when >> the zoo was crowded with visitors, a man lowered himself by rope >> into the lion enclosure and walked up to the lions shouting,"God >> will save me if he exists," thus proving himself to be a man of >> faith. Without hesitation, a lioness severed his carotid artery. > > > But had the poor demented man been a Christian, Bob, he would have > been familiar with the verses, > > ================================================ > And said to him: If thou be the Son of God, > cast thyself down, for it is written: > That he hath given his angels charge over thee, > and in their hands shall they bear thee up, > lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against a stone. > > Jesus said to him: It is written again: > Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. > ================================================ > > he would have emulated Our Lord and not have cast himself down > into the lion's den. 8-) > > Frank > >
Careful Frank. You sound somewhat like Bob Park, but instead of implying that the religious are demented, you appear to be implying that the non-religious are demented. ;-) Harry
