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I still think these are some of the finest words ever written in the English language:

 

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

 

Luke 6:31

 

God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

 

1 John 4:16

 

Simple statements yet they say more than we could ever learn in a life time.

 

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I like this one as well:

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

 

John 11:25-26

 

I don't necessarily believe the content of this one but it's very beautifully structured prose, like poetry.

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I much prefer this...

 

 

Oh, a crude Atheist mocking religion. How original and invigorating.

 

You have to admit that some of the references are spot on...

 

Genesis 6 5:7

 

"5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually. 6And the Lord was sorry that he had made humankind on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. 7So the Lord said, ‘I will blot out from the earth the human beings I have created—people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."

 

You must agree that this is a lovely message.

 

(And if you want to be really p*ssed off try this...

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You have to admit that some of the references are spot on...

 

Genesis 6 5:7

 

"5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually. 6And the Lord was sorry that he had made humankind on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. 7So the Lord said, ‘I will blot out from the earth the human beings I have created—people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."

 

You must agree that this is a lovely message.

 

I don't know why you think it's not a lovely message. It's simply taking a real historical deluge and applying a moral causality to it. Most of the pre-abrahamic sections of Genesis are kabbalistic creation myths, certainly not to be taken at face value.

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I much prefer this...

 

Excellent. More sense from Minchin than all the dog-collared dickheads put together

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Excellent. More sense from Minchin than all the dog-collared dickheads put together

 

That's not exactly a big achievement.

 

And yet you place value in a book that has been amended "god" knows how many times over the years to suit the Church/Monarch?

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