| roger.pearse@googlemail.com 2008-01-28, 3:55 am |
| On Jan 27, 3:18=A0pm, "Charles Hottel" <chot...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> <roger.pea...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> On Jan 25, 1:31 am, "Charles Hottel" <chot...@earthlink.net> wrote:
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> Quite a lot of theological assumptions in there! =A0But it's fairly
> obvious that I can give you a message; quite why a God should not be
> able to do the same is not clear to me.
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> [Charlie]
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> Quite a lot of observations of flawed human behiviore nothing theological =
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<smile> Oh dear.
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> Not in any meaningful sense. =A0But I sense a perfect storm of strawmen
> about to be deployed. =A0The question that we should ask, surely, is why
> our masters want our minds to be populated with some many excuses as
> to why "Do not steal, do not commit adultery, do not lie" is not
> binding. =A0While they keep our minds off this question, and while we
> internalise what they feed us, we are unlikely to reach *any* valid
> conclusions. =A0Surely?
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> [Charlie]
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> So from =A0one simple question you have leaped to the conclusion that I wa=
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<chortle> Please, don't bother with this kind of nonsense. We all
know the trick of phrasing jeers as questions. To pretend otherwise
is disingenuous.
But I suppose, if you can't deal with my comments, and don't want to
discuss even the way in which the issue is being setup, then you most
certainly don't have to!
All the best,
Roger Pearse
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