Merry Jeep Christmas
Earle Horton
atheist like me.
Earle
L.W.(Bill) Hughes III
I'll be praying for ya.
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
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PeterD
Sounds good, enjoy 'em!
DougW
> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:20:20 -0700, "Earle Horton" wrote:
>
>> Merry Jeep Christmas or Happy Jeep Holidays if you are a liberal
>> God-hating atheist like me.
>>
>> Earle
>
> Sounds good, enjoy 'em!
And a Merry Jeepsmas to all!
--
DougW
Larry
Hi Earle...sorry to have to tell you that it is almost impossible to
be an atheist, especially a liberal God-hating one! The last find of
scrolls and codices at Nag Hammadi in Egypt, in 1945, revealed a whole
new side of early Christianity that was suppressed by the early
Church, but now is available for everyone to read about.
In those early texts, the idea was that all of humanity has a divine
spark within....in other words, the divine is inside yourself....This
early belief is reflected in a quote attributed to Jesus in the Gospel
of Thomas, a heretical text, in which Jesus says...
"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save
you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not
bring forth will destroy you."
So it turns out that only if you hate yourself can you hate God,
according to those early texts.
Furthermore, upon careful reading of these ancient texts, I can find
no evidence that Jesus never owned a Jeep or even had the slightest
interest in driving one.
And that is my Christmas message.
Happy Holidays to all.
Larry
Earle Horton
Merry Christmas to you too!
Earle
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Ozymandias
> On Dec 22, 11:20�am, "Earle Horton" <ear...@live.com.invalid> wrote:
>> Merry Jeep Christmas or Happy Jeep Holidays if you are a liberal God-hating
>> atheist like me.
>>
>> Earle
>
> Hi Earle...sorry to have to tell you that it is almost impossible to
> be an atheist, especially a liberal God-hating one! The last find of
> scrolls and codices at Nag Hammadi in Egypt, in 1945, revealed a whole
> new side of early Christianity that was suppressed by the early
> Church, but now is available for everyone to read about.
>
> In those early texts, the idea was that all of humanity has a divine
> spark within....in other words, the divine is inside yourself....This
> early belief is reflected in a quote attributed to Jesus in the Gospel
> of Thomas, a heretical text, in which Jesus says...
>
> "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save
> you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not
> bring forth will destroy you."
That is simply a 360-degree turn, returning you to the original,
paraphrased as 'God is within'.
It's heretical only in that it went against church propaganda/dogma of its
day.
And scrolls and codices and fables notwithstanding, they too are is
still based on a belief system.
And belief, of any sort whatsoever, is just that: belief. Just as 'faith'
is no more than faith.
Neither one qualifies as fact until proven.
> So it turns out that only if you hate yourself can you hate God,
> according to those early texts.
Yes, /according to those texts/. And these days, monkeys, baboons and
Great Apes can write some very good text, along with many other animals.
> Furthermore, upon careful reading of these ancient texts, I can find no
> evidence that Jesus never owned a Jeep or even had the slightest
> interest in driving one.
Well, who or whatever he was, he at least had the good taste to be
disinterested in the unimportant and trivial.
>
> And that is my Christmas message.
>
> Happy Holidays to all.
And a happy Solstice from Europe.
Ozzy