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Sept. 2, 2006 I never said there was no God. I said there is no cogent evidence that corroborates the contention that there is a God. I did go further to state that there is no such God as the Bible describes. In other words, if there is a God, which I doubt, the last place to find out about him is in the books of the Bible. In the Gospels, Jesus reportedly withered a fig tree, assuring us that, if we have faith, a mountain will obey us, if we order it to jump into the sea. No one on this planet that I know of has ever made a mountain jump into the sea. Yet I’ve met dozens of people who will attempt foolishly and fatuously to defend Jesus’ supposed utterance. They try to pass off ordinary events as moved mountains: I recovered from an illness; I inherited money; I got a promotion; etc. They explain that “moving a mountain” is a figure of speech. The ambiguous Jesus meant something other than what he said. However, “withering a fig tree” is really the literal truth. Jesus really did wither a fig, but we may move mountains only metaphorically. How is one to know whether Jesus really “withered a fig” or whether that is just another literary gimmick? Why didn’t Jesus just say that, if you have faith, you can sometimes achieve objectives that would have been impossible otherwise? On the very face of it, the parable is nonsense, as are so many other parables in the New Testament. So we may safely conclude that God did not inspire the Gospels, unless God is just a little balmy and batty. But I don’t think any definition of God would allow for him to be a “divine madcap or joker”. I’ve asked Christians again and again to perform, I even offered $1000 as a reward for anyone who could demonstrate the ability to read two words that I had on a piece of paper. I’d probably have been safe to offer $1,000,000, but I didn’t have it, so I didn’t want to give anyone who surmised as much a pretext for crying fraud. We have a man on the website who thinks he has the yogic force, whatever that is. As far as I’m concerned, “force” is the product of “mass” and “acceleration”, so the only yogic force I know of depends upon how much the yogi weighs and how fast his Rolls Royce gets from zero to sixty. “Comments by his public spokeswoman only increased tensions. Matters were not helped by Rajneesh's vow of silence, or the 93 Rolls-Royces his followers bought him as gifts - they said that he wanted 365 cars so that he had a new one for each day of the year.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh We have a psychic on the website who claims to enable police forces to solve crimes. We have an astrologer. We have had numerologists and seers. One Serenissimus Petrus predicted almost a year ago on this website, “Serenissimus Petrus, The World’s Greatest Psychic, has made predictions for September 2005 and said that Natalee Holloway will eventually come out of hiding, alive and well, pregnant and with her prince charming to face the world.” http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/sept/article143.html Another of UK ’s magicians and mountebanks foretold the exact date, “Natalee Holloway will be found 11/8/05.” http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/nov/article110.html Now we have a polytheist or pantheist! “I myself think that the ancients had it right in their belief in pantheism. There are several gods sometimes working at cross purposes.” http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/06aug/article150.html What next? There’s just no room in this world for someone who knows and tells what he sees, exactly as he sees it, without idle speculation and flights of fancy. ------------ About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far. I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents. Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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