On 1/19/2014 9:30 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 20:11:02 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:
>
>> The guy I am talking about above is one of the clowns in the comment
>> thread.
>
> Oh, yeah, there's a lot of asshattery in the comments - which is why I've
> not read them.  The discussions are generally going to be pretty
> predictable, anyways.  There will be those who support him, those who
> have ideas and suggestions for changes to his approach, and those who are
> going to tell him he's going to hell for even considering the idea that
> there is no God.
>
> I've got enough going on in my life without reading over those same
> arguments again. :)
>
> Jim
>
Actually, most of the comments where pretty positive. Its just the one 
"thread" in it, which might dear old "Paul" the biblical literalist, and 
"expert" on the subject of ignoring *everything* else we know about the 
Bible, history, archeology, and contemporary alternatives, for it, while 
having, apparently, "studied" the thing itself to tatters, which has 
gone seriously wacko.

I have mostly stopped posting, but.. I couldn't help bringing up the 
absurd fact, found with a google on, "chemosh Jehovah el baal", that 
half the "experts" seem to think that ba'al and Jehovah are the same 
gods, or that El was also Dagon, or that all 4 are the same god, or all 
separate gods, and three of them are the "sons" of El, or possibly 
Dagon, or.... well, you get the picture. lol

I described it as being like trying to analyze Tolkien, while ignoring 
the fact that he stole nearly everything in his books, including the 
made up languages, from Northern European mythology.

I am sure though, the joker will have some grand explanation for it. :p

-- 
Commander Vimes: "You take a bunch of people who don't seem any 
different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get 
this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem."

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