Re: Fallout 3 no longer banned in Australia

Thus spake CoinSpin <coin^spam^spin@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:15:47
-0400, Anno Domini:

MJB wrote:
"Werner Spahl" <spahl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.64.0809021620001.5545@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, MJB wrote:


I live in Montana where the dinosaur bone in question was examined. It
made the news here big-time.

I can't believe it!


Read this book if you ever get a chance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_the_Matter_with_Kansas

It explains a lot. Did to me.


Why do they make their God so small, just because of a book obviously
written by some supersticious men a long time ago? The God of people
believing in science and evolution created a complete universe with
billions of stars millions of years old and still cared about us :)!


That's not what the bible says is true, Werner. The bible says that GOD
created man in his image 6,000 years ago and that man is the only life in
the universe.

<shrug>

I went to a Catholic university where the 'Our Father' was said before every
class. And then I was taught proper Darwinian evolutionary theory by a
Jesuit priest in a roman-collar. So not all religions have such a small
world (or universal) view as the one I described.


It's a pretty sad commentary on how gullible and impressionable we (as a
people) seem to be getting... Seems like common sense is being bred out
of the human race, sometimes.

For some reason, more and more people today cannot get it through their
heads that most (if not all) of the Bible is a set of parables and
stories meant to convey a message, not what actually happened. It was
written by man, in a time when the norm for historical preservation was
to tell stories and pass them down from generation to generation, and it
was meant to provide guidelines for a good and proper way of life -
basically a primer of what is good and what is bad.

I agree with you in simple point of fact CS, though the Bible's real
'hidden' purpose was always as a testament to man's failure to save himself
& to pave the way for a Messiah i.e. to thus demonstrate a need - hence the
NT. Everything else is parables & fluff imo, or divinely inspired Truth,
written by the hand of man, depending on how shallow or how deep you want to
dig ;).

But with each new generation today, it seems like there are more and
more of these "literal translation" freaks who believe (and preach) the
fact that every single thing in the Bible is a true fact that actually
occurred. Of course, these same fanatics will conveniently bend the
"facts" of the Bible to meet their beliefs. Case in point: the
"literalists" will spout "incest is a sin, it says so in the Bible"
decrees, claim that the whole story of Eden and Adam & Eve is completely
100% factual, yet conveniently dismiss the point that for this to be
true, there would have had to be a LOT of incest to actually populate
the world. Can't cloud the issue with facts, it messes with their
delusions.

He, he, not to defend them in any way, but Genesis says that Adam & Eve were
the first Man & Woman in the garden of eden created directly in God's image;
it doesn't speak of them as the _only_ created humans, nor in fact that Eden
was the exclusive domain where humans sprang forth. But yes, it's all a big
load of codswallop to take books like Genesis, Job or Revelation literally.
I mean really. Do these ppl even read the Bible for themselves? It's been
available in print since the King James version in 1611 lol! Have they ever
heard of the bloke that Jesus left after him (the Holy Spirit), which was
half the reason he came, working in men's hearts to guide & lead them to
their Truths, rather than some tv evangelist? Can dumbness really be that
dumb ffs? <boggle>

Of course Christians are not the only ones guilty of this type of
oversight, it happens the world over in many religions - there is always
some zealot who is willing to selectively quote and/or twist the
writings of their religion to serve their particular delusional
viewpoints. The scary part is when they get so good at it, people
believe and follow them.

Yup. There are also some big names which misled or slaughtered a helluva lot
of ppl in history, for completely non-religious reasons (from Caesar, to
Khan, to Hitler to Stalin to Mao, to name a few). God/religion certainly is
a convenient scape goat for blaming most of men's evil on, though as we all
know, serial murderers like Jones & Manson & Bundy had a lot more in common
with mental illnesses than any real devout beliefs, no matter what crap they
spewed forth. It's a shame so many nutbags still get so far in the US. I
guess if your government provided less guns & more common sense in their
politics & laws things might be different over there <EG>.

--
Nostromo
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