Warp wrote:
> http://warp.povusers.org/OpenLetters/ResponseTo10Questions.html

Ooops.

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Just because the same word, "slave", is used, doesn't automatically mean the 
situations were comparable.
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OK, so you're of the feeling that slavery *can* be good and moral. Now, how 
about the genocide, rape and pillage attacks, and murder of thousands of 
innocent babies?  :-)

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And what kind of evidence do you want?
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So, Jesus brings people back from the dead, cures illness, has a lecture 
with thousands of people in attendance, and then comes back from the dead 
himself. Yet none of the scholars and historians of the day mention him, the 
head priest of the town where he overturns the tables of the money lenders 
mentions the event, and in the whole of historical documents, there's maybe 
one sentence that could be interpreted as a reference to Jesus, maybe.

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Question #9: Why would Jesus want you to eat his body and drink his blood?

I can't believe how fast these "questions" are degrading in quality.

What do you not understand about symbolism? Do you have some kind of 
difficulty in understanding metaphors?
"""

Maybe you missed this story, wherein a student takes a piece of bread, and 
the priest is as upset as if Jesus himself was kidnapped:

http://www.wftv.com/news/16798008/detail.html

"It is hurtful," said Father Migeul Gonzalez with the Diocese. "Imagine if 
they kidnapped somebody and you make a plea for that individual to please 
return that loved one to the family."

Gonzalez said intentionally abusing the Eucharist is classified as a mortal 
sin in the Catholic church, the most severe possible.

A week later:

"One week after a University of Central Florida student snatched something 
sacred from church, armed UCF police officers stood guard during Sunday Mass 
to protect what Catholics call "The Body of Christ.""

OK, so we're ready to shoot someone who attempts to take home a piece of 
bread given to him, because you know, it's just a metaphor.

Just be glad you don't live in the religious nuthouse that's America these 
days. When the religious leaders don't understand the metaphor, and are 
ready to shoot at you for kidnapping Jesus himself, then this question makes 
complete sense.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Insanity is a small city on the western
   border of the State of Mind.

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