Tim wrote:
On Dec 22, 6:09 am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:27:27 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould





wrote:
On Dec 21, 5:34?pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
Here 'ya go - should keep you busy for a while. ?:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_H._Christ
via...
http://www.iambossy.com/
I guess people are free to interpret "IHS" any way that is personally
meaningful.
Of notable interest; the Catholic church had pretty much a monopoly on
organized Christianity for the longest time, especially during the
middle ages. According to their encyclopedia, the translation noted by
the author of the Wiki article is a "wrong understanding". Doesn't
mean that some folks don't see it the same way as the Wiki writer,
however.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07649a.htm
Chuck - it was a joke. A set up and then the joke.- Hide quoted text -

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Awwww Tom, you made a joke about ....Jesus! "Now I'll be forced to
get a bunch of fundamentalist christians and start a jihad.. OOOPS!
No, I regret that words been taken already, I like the sound of
"jihad", its better than "purge". But oh well, like the saying goes
you "run what you brung".

Anyhow! We'll get our PURGE coming after you but we'll probably
stop off and deal with Illuminati Larry on the way out there. So be
prepared to be purged, Now I wish you hand't done this offense Tom,
Now I have to go find my white sheetrobe and cone hat. And now I'll
have to dig up all the verses to the Battle Hymn of the Republic too,
I mean after all, it takes a good while for a body to be burned at the
stake. i got a lot of singing to do! See what you put me thought,
Tom? Some days it's best just to stay in bed, but no! Now you've made
be get up ponder my duties as a "REAL" Christian!


Some of us don't think "fundamentalist" Christianity is such a big joke.
Any sort of religious fundamentalism with growing numbers of followers
is a threat to the sort of secular, non-sectarian society we have here
in this country.

When you have "religious groups" denying science, limiting medical
research, teaching creationism (cretinism, actually), proclaiming Jesus
or Mohammed or whoever, voting for candidates based solely on their
religious beliefs, in the end, it doesn't matter much whether you are in
Iran or in Alabama.

The "fundie" Christians in this country are a few years behind and a few
millions followers lighter than the "fundie" Muslims in Iran, Iraq, and
Saudi Arabia. They'll catch up. In the end, they're all the same
simple-minded rabble, ready to be led and ready to slaughter.