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ToHonorObey -> RE: Christianity & BDSM (3/26/2008 1:42:47 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Aylee
http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp
Sheesh! Resorting to Urban Legends.
Sheesh!
The effort to disclaim an "urban myth" by elaborating on the origins, developments, and definitions of "urban myths" in a manner which attempts to dispel most, if not all, "urban myths" as falsehoods, is a logical response to the "urban myth" of what, supposedly, Einstien may, or may not have said, if one is unable to win a Nobel prize by convincingly rewriting the laws of physics pertaining to heat and light, and then apply those principles to Einstien's logic of evil being the absence of love, or more specifically, the love of "God." The kind of love, which to some was, is, and will always be, best expressed by the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, of which there are very many accounts aside from those popularized by the New Testament. To some, it seems highly unlikely that such a large proportion of functionally literate witnesses from that short span of time could all have been simultaneously hallucinating and still maintain the capacity to perform legible penmanship. It is understandable why the many atheists are pointing a finger and cursing at the theists because many of the theists are pointing a finger and cursing at the atheists, as both sides attempt to discredit each other. By doing so, considering their stand on this issue, being human, theists will, at one time or another, display a somewhat greater degree of hypocrisy by lack of "practicing what they preach," thereby making their "God" even less appealing to anyone that appears to be undecided whether a "God" even exists at all. Where did love come from? Somewhere on earth? How many species kill their mates or their offspring after conception? Humans do. Since the very beginning of the evolution of mankind, exactly when did humans begin being nice to strangers, then how and for what reason? By studying monkeys? If so, then when and where did the notions of dog eat dog, the law of the jungle, and only the strong survive originate, then when, to what, and to whom do they apply? Which came first, cruelty or conscience? Without cruelty, would there be neccessity for a conscience? Do ancient Egyptian wall carvings prove that those artistic Egyptians were the first to perform circumcisions? No, those carvings only prove that they were the first to engrave that procedure into a wall. Does "Thou shalt not make any graven image" ring a bell? Have Gandhi, Mother Theresa, or others that promoted spiritualism, love, and charity also been subjects of "urban myths"? Or would they had to have attended a university and proved a professor wrong to qualify? Does anytime a student anywhere proves any teacher wrong about anything automatically become an "urban myth" because the teacher is always right? Following the course of that argument, it is possible that the lifestyle promoted by this website may someday also become the subject of an "urban myth," but in one or two hundred years, will anybody care whether it even existed or not? If it is illegal to spank a child under three years old, how long before the minimum age to inflict pain of any kind on another reaches twenty-one and requires passing an educational course to obtain a permit either to give or receive? The U.S. Constitution calls for a separation of "church" and "state," yet, ironically, the "church" is slowly becoming the "state," (or is it the other way around?) until one day when the U.S. Constitution might also become an "urban myth." If an atheist wants to fire a shot at my belief in "God," don't be surprised if one day we might be firing more than rhetoric from the same side at something that endangers us both, the "church" and the "state." http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/sciencefaith.html
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