Re: The Five Kingdom Classification

On Mar 30, 9:41 pm, Paul J Gans <g...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
TomS <TomS_mem...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:48:36 +0000 (UTC), in article
<gqqt54$nh...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Paul J Gans stated..."

Michael Siemon <mlsie...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <SoYzl.11028$%54...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
John Harshman <jharshman.diespam...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...

I see you have not read the bible. It is loaded full of "Thou shall have no
other Gods before me" thingies.  In each and every book of the bible.

So the bible is what you mean by "ancient texts"? And here I thought you
were appealing to a wide variety of such texts.Why not just say "the
bible"?

[M]adman is a clown; he even exhibits it publicly -- "In each and every
book of the bible"? Oh? total crap. And he knows it. Ignore him, for
God's sake. He only posts here to get a rise out of folks -- and sadly,
he is very good at doing that (obnoxious as it is.)

Ignore him?  He's the most fun around.  With GM broke and Chrysler
going out of business where else can we find fun?

Yeah, I know.  I argued the other way around before.  So I'm
illogical.  But as I write the market is only down 260 points.

I confess also. I tried to ignore this one. But then this really
funny stuff about the Biblical classification scheme.
Once, I had thought about doing something like that. Going through
the Bible to find just what kind of classification scheme one could
infer from the Bible. I really couldn't do it, though. It is so
alien and anachronistic. It would be a straw man.
So I couldn't resist when a creationist would go ahead with it. It
was a gift.

Right!  Most anything taking the Bible as literally true,
especially an English translation of a Latin Translation
of a Greek translation of what was mostly Hebrew and Aramaic
*has* to be a hoot.

One of my favorites is Moses having horns.  Got a lot of
street cred on that one.  Michaelangelo's Moses shows him
with horns, so it must be true.  Of course it is a mis-translation,
but since it is in the King James Version it just *has* to be
authentic.

But I'm sure that Our Hero has an explanation for it all.

My favorite is "Thou shalt not kill," which has been used as an
argument for pacifism, against capital punishment and even for
vegetarianism. The Hebrew words come a lot closer to "Don't commit
murder" and refer to the same types of _unlawful_ killing that we
refer to with the legal term murder.

I really loved the part of the Baghavad Gita where god told me it was
ok to kill people.

--
Will in New Haven

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