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  Re: Christian Fundamentalists in the USA - change of favorite enemy?  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 25 Sep 2014 03:28:53
Message: <5423c435$1@news.povray.org>
On 25-9-2014 5:50, Patrick Elliott wrote:
> On 9/23/2014 7:57 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> On 23-9-2014 12:04, Stephen wrote:
>>> On 22/09/2014 08:48, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>>>>
>>>> That is interesting. In Christian terms the devil being the entity most
>>>> to be feared
>>>
>>> In some parts of the Christian world it is God who is most to be feared.
>>> ;-)
>>>
>>>
>> Ah yes! The righteous, angry, vengeful, Old Testamentish God! I knew a
>> few of them who bowed and cringed under his baleful stare :-)
>>
> I have always contended that they got the old saying dead wrong. If
> there was a devil, his greatest trick was convincing people that he and
> god where different entities.
>
Well, you may not be wrong :-) In fact in some religions both are 
different aspects of the same entity.

Thomas


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