So *pretty* *red* *shirt* boi, why is it that you call Cody a religious zealot,
and none of these X-tians? Would it be because you are just a loser who likes to
run with the crowd for approval?

http://www.nobeliefs.com/DarkBible/DarkBibleContents.htm

Let us examine the religion of hate:

Godly Mass Murder

"And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of
the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men:
and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a
great slaughter." (I Samuel 6:19)
Comment

Here we have just one more instance of God performing mass murder, a sadistic
killer far worse than Hitler, Attila the Hun or Pol Pot.

These verses should insult the intelligence of any person who thinks that God
possesses a loving nature.

One should not dismiss the Old Testament's repeated demand for the vilest
atrocities as something peculiar to the early Hebrews. Even today, our most
atrocious wars, terrorism and hate crimes occur around the world based on
ancient religious beliefs, many of them coming directly from verses in the Old
and New Testament.

Kill All Unbelievers

"And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he
hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God..." (Deuteronomy 13: 5)

"If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife
of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly,
saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy
fathers;" (Deuteronomy 13: 6)

"Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye
pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou
shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death,
and afterwards the hand of all the people." (Deuteronomy 13:8-9)

"Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the
sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof,
with the edge of the sword." (Deuteronomy 13:15)
Comment

These severe laws commanded the members of the Hebrew religion to murder even
their own children if they did not worship Yahweh (God).

These Bible words can justify, to a fanatical fundamentalist believer, the
killing of friends or family simply because they may fail to change their
beliefs.

Why anyone today would accept these words, much less allow them to exist in a
sacred book goes against the nature of any tolerant and loving people.

Kill Man, Woman, Infant

"Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how
he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. Now go and smite
Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay
both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and a.s." (I Samuel
15:2-3)
Comment

No matter how one can justify possible crimes from adults, suckling infants have
no means of acting out crimes. And what evil against God could the animals have
possibly performed? Only an evil entity could kill innocent infants and animals,
no matter what their parents and owners may have done.

King David's Holocaust

"And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and
under harrows of iron, and under the axes of iron, and made them pass through
the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So
David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem." (II Samuel 12:31)
Comment

From the sacred scripts from the Bible we learn that the great King David
carried out atrocities that rivaled the cruel acts from the holocaust of World
War II. If we condemn the Nazi's for their atrocities, why should we not do the
same for David's bloodthirsty actions?

Moses' Mass Murder

"Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to
commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague
among the congregation of the LORD. Now therefore kill every male among the
little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all
the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for
yourselves." (Numbers 31:16-18)
Comment

Moses commands the murder of approximately 100,000 young males and, roughly,
68,000 helpless women.

Consider women and children of your own family: No matter how sick they may lay,
or how they may go against a religion, how would you feel if a man named Moses,
claiming to speak for God, sent men into your house and hacked to pieces the
women and male children? Also, how would you react if they spotted a female
child, dragged her off with them to do as they please with her? Note that these
innocent virgins served for their own sexual pleasures.

Midian, the land of the Midianites, did not reside in an area regarded as a
natural enemy of Israel for centuries, and in fact lay hundreds of miles away
from the Israelite encampment. Moses, himself, had lived in Midian as fugitive
after committing his first murder. In short, Midian presented no threat to God's
"Chosen People."

Nail His Head!

"Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand,
and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it
into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died." (Judges 4:21)
Comment

In verse 16 the Israelites surprise Sisera's army and that "there was not a man
left," except Sisera who deserts his army and flees, a deed punishable by court
martial today. Sisera then goes to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber. Jael
takes him in, hides him under a blanket, gives him milk to quench his thirst,
and promises to stand guard at the door while he sleeps. Then Jael kills Sisera!

We see no telling of the slightest shame, but rather, Jael proudly flaunts her
kill. The author of this piece of Scripture makes it clear that the passage
represents a deed, not only as grand and heroic but also consistent with the
will of God (see Judges 4:23).

Raping And Killing

"Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined
unto them shall fall by the sword. Their children also shall be dashed to pieces
before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished."
(Isaiah 13:15-16)
Comment

These verses foretold the deaths of the people of Babylon. Fortunately not
everyone in Babylon (now modern Iraq) fell by the sword or had their children
dashed to pieces or their wives raped (just another instance of errors in the
Bible). How some people who believe in an infallible Bible can accept these
verses as God inspired, or morally uplifting can only give evidence to the
blinding nature of belief. For if we believe these words as God inspired, then
the killing of children and the raping of wives must also come as an inspiration
from the Supreme Being.

Shed The Blood

"And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast
will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother
will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his
blood be shed: for in the image of God made the man." (Genesis 9:5-6)
Comment

Some anti-abortionists have used these words to justify the killing of
abortionists. As such, these words helped inspire Michael Griffin to kill Doctor
David Gunn on March 10, 1993.

Consider that the Bible never directly addresses abortion, much the less the
condemnation of it. On the contrary, God himself has condoned, not only
miscarriages, but has personally called for the killing of suckling infants and
the bashing of children against the rocks.

(See Numbers 5:26-27, I Samuel 15:2-3, and Psalm 137:9)

Slaughter Of Innocents

"And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the
women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain." (Deuteronomy
2:34)

"And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Hesbon, utterly
destroying the men, women, and children, of every city. But all the cattle, and
the spoil of the cities we took for a prey to ourselves." (Deuteronomy 3:6-7)
Comment

Such words helped give justification to mediaeval Crusaders who slaughtered men,
women and children along their way to Jerusalem and stole the spoils of the
cities. Even today, many Christian military men use Scripture to justify their
actions. If any soldier harbors doubt about killing his fellow humans, he need
only consult a military chaplain or read the Bible to calm their worries. Even
George Bush (the First), with Billy Graham beside him, proclaimed the Gulf War
as "moral." George Bush (the Second) continued in his father's steps by killing
thousands of Iraqi civilians in the Iraqi war. Such moral wars result in
thousands of "utterly destroyed" innocent men, women and children.;

(For a few more examples [but not all] see also Deuteronomy 3:3, 7:2, 20:16-17 ,
25:19; Joshua 6:21, 8:26, 10-28-40; Numbers 31:17-18; I Samuel 15:3; Isaiah
13:16; and Hosea 13:16)

Slay Old And Young

"And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city,
and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: Slay utterly old and
young, both maids, and little children, and woman: but come not near any man
upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient
men which were before the house." (Ezekiel 9:5-6)
Comment

These words, commanded by God, orders the slaying of not only women and the old,
but of little children. These accounts of cold-blooded massacres occurred simply
because people refused to accept Yahweh. These phrases should give warning to
anyone who knows a person who believes every word in the Bible.

For what sense of moral reasoning should we allow ourselves to admire such
Biblical verses?

The Survivors

"Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed
the servants of our God in their foreheads. And I heard the number of them which
were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all
the tribes of the children of Israel." (Revelation 7:3-4)

"And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given
power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that
they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither
any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads."
(Revelation 9:3-4)
Comment

Here we have the great future destruction where millions of people will die.
Only 144,000 Jews with a protective mark on their heads will survive.

Now do get back in your cage *pretty* *red* *shirt* boi, where you belong.

Alan

http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/mylinks.html

[snipped]

I blame my combo drugs ;-)

Well, that, and the reflexive need to stomp on a cockroach...

ahahahahahahahah!  (<= ©Elmo ;-)

/greyhackles

And what does the bible say about *women*?

The Biblical view of women

The God of the Bible decrees that woman must submit to the dominance of man.

"The social and legal position of an Israelite wife was inferior to the position
a wife occupied in the great countries round about... all the texts show that
Israelites wanted mainly sons to perpetuate the family line and fortune, and to
preserve the ancestral inheritance... A husband could divorce his wife; women on
the other hand could not ask for divorce... the wife called her husband Ba'al or
master; she also called him adon or lord; she addressed him, in fact, as a slave
addressed his master or subject, his king. The Decalogue includes a man's wife
among his possessions... all her life she remains a minor. The wife does not
inherit from her husband, nor daughters from their father, except when there is
no male heir. A vow made by a girl or married woman needs, to be valid, the
consent of the father or husband and if this consent is withheld, the vow is
null and void. A man had a right to sell his daughter. Women were excluded from
the succession."

-Roland de Vaux, archaeologist and priest

Blue words represent Bible quotes

Burn The Daughter!

"And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore,
she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire." (Leviticus 21:9)
Comment

A priest's daughter, if found to have lost her virginity without marriage, can
receive the death penalty, but in the form of incineration.

How many fundamentalist priests who so easily condemn others would carry out the
burning of their daughters if they found them "whoring"?

(See also Genesis 38:24)

Cut Off Her Hand!

"When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near
for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth
forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: then thou shalt cut off her hand,
thine eye shall not pity her." (Deuteronomy 25:11-12)
Comment

A wife would naturally wish to come to the aid of her husband in any way she
could if he desperately struggled with an opponent, but the Hebrew law
specifically forbade a wife to help her husband in distress if that support
consisted of her grabbing the enemy's genitals in an effort to stifle his
onslaught. The penalty? Amputation of the hand that fondled the genitals!

Only in an overly obsessive male dominated culture could men create such
atrocious laws. As such, the penis ranked sacrosanct in the minds of men (as it
still stands today). If a male lost his penis for any reason, he would lose the
right to enter a congregation of God. (See Deuteronomy 23:1)

Female Births Get Penalty

"Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and
born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of
the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean." (Leviticus 12:2)

"But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her
separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and
six days." (Leviticus 12:5)
Comment

A woman who gives birth to a child must undergo a purification ritual lest her
"uncleanness" contaminate others. This not only entails her isolation, but also
payments to priests for the ritual acts. Thus the male dominators had even made
birth dirty.

Notice here that if a woman bears a female child, her isolation must last twice
as long as that if she gives birth to a male child!

(See also Psalms 51:3-5)

   "The Bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way
of woman's emancipation."

   --Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Female Inferiority

"But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head
of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God." (I Corinthians 11:3)

"For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man
created for the woman; but the woman for the man." (I Corinthians 11:8-9)
Comment

The Bible's decree of male supremacy has kept woman inferior to men for
centuries. For the religious, it comes as a sad fact that a human must have a
penis to receive any respect or power within the Church.

All woman should realize that such phrases in the Bible has justified for many
Christian men, not only their supremacy but a reason to sexually abuse women.

(See also I Cor. 14:34-36, I Timothy 2:8-15, I Peter 3:1-7, Ephesians 5:22-24,
Col. 3:18-19)

Jesus Will Kill Children

"Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into
great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her
children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which
searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according
to your works." (Revelation 2:22-23)
Comment

If anyone thinks Jesus represents only a peaceful loving soul, then think again.
For an act of adultery, Jesus would kill innocent children for the adultery of
others; hardly fair justice, love, or the concern for human beings.

Some apologists claim that "children" refers to the followers of a cult of
Jezebel and not to children birthed from Jezebel. However, if this proved the
case, the situation would appear even more horrific, for a cult of believers
could number in the dozens, hundreds, thousands, or more. The deaths of these
multitude of cult believers (which would include children within its membership)
would only make the moralistic problem far more atrocious.

   "It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most
anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing
the dresses."

   --Flo Kennedy

Kill The Witches!

"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Whoever lieth with a beast shall surely
be put to death. He that sacrificeth unto any god, save to the LORD only, he
shall be utterly destroyed." (Exodus 22:18-20)
Comment

These verses attest to the power of belief as they led to the slaughter of
thousands of defenseless people throughout Europe and the rest of the world.

Understand that these verses not only authorize the executions but they
explicitly command them.

Verse 18 justified the burning of women in Europe judged as witches. In early
America, the Salem witch trials resulted in the deaths of women and men.

Verse 19 refers to bestiality, a sin considered worthy of death. Christians used
verse 20 to justify religious wars, Crusades and the slaughter of unbelievers
throughout Europe. And the condemnation of heretics still goes on.

Rape My Daughter

"Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out
now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto
this man do not so vile a thing. But the men would not hearken to him: so the
man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and
abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring,
they let her go." (Judges 19:24-25)
Comment

Judges 19 describe a father who offers his virgin daughter to a drunken mob.
When the father says "unto this man do not so vile a thing," he makes clear that
sexual abuse should never befall a man (meaning him), yet a woman, even his own
flesh and blood, or a concubine belonging to a perfect stranger, can receive
punishment from men to do what they wish. This attitude against women still
persists to this day and we have the Bible, in large part, to thank for this
attitude against women.

Verse 25 describes the hours long gang rape of the poor concubine. The Bible
gives not one hint of passion or concern for the raped girl. Considering that
many people believe that every word in the Bible comes from God, it should not
surprise anyone why people still use these verses to justify such atrocities.

Silence The Woman!

"Let the women learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to
teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was
first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived
was in the transgression." (I Timothy 2:11-14)
Comment

Another case where the Bible makes it quite clear that women live for man and
must submit to them.

   "Man enjoys the great advantage of having a god endorse the code he writes;
and since man exercises a sovereign authority over women it is especially
fortunate that this authority has been vested in him by the Supreme Being. For
the Jews, Mohammedans and Christians among others, man is master by divine
right; the fear of God will therefore repress any impulse towards revolt in the
downtrodden female."

   --Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex 1949

(See also I Cor. 11:3-12, I Cor. 14:34-36, I Peter 3:1-7, Ephesians 5:22-24,
Col. 3:18-19.)

Stone The Woman!

"If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, and a man find her
in the city, and lie with her;" (Deuteronomy 22:22)

"Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall
stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being
in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou
shalt put away evil from among you." (Deuteronomy 22:24)
Comment

(Read also Deuteronomy 22:13-21)

The discovery of a bride lying with another man can yield disastrous results.

If the wife's parents can produce tokens of the damsel's virginity and spread
the cloth before the elders of the city, the husband has to pay the bride's
father one hundred silver shekels and he may not send his wife back to her
parents as long as she lives. But if the bride's virginity does not satisfy the
requirements, the husband can get rid of her by letting the men of the city
stone her to death.

From a practical level, these designed laws regulating women's virginity
protected economic transactions between men rather than for the sake of
morality. (See Virgin's Worth below)

"Virgin" Mistranslation

"Therefore the LORD himself shall give you a sign: Behold, a virgin shall
conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." (Isaiah 7:14)
Comment

Perhaps the most famous mistranslation of the Bible, the word virgin here comes
from a mistranslated Greek word for virgin.

The original Hebrew version uses the word "almah" which means "young woman"
which may or may not refer to a virgin. Of course the context of the original
Hebrew Isaiah does not refer to a virgin at all, as scholars the world over
agree, but only refers to a young woman.

Later, the author of Matthew 1:22-23, quoted from the mistranslated Isaiah
version, and thus the error turned into a world-wide belief.

Today a few of the modern bibles such as the Revised Standard Version, have
corrected this mistranslation and have replaced the word virgin with "young
woman." (Isaiah 7:14, RSV)

Apparently either God makes errors or the Bible does not come from god, but
rather from fallible men.

Virgin's Worth

"If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold
on her, and lie with her, and they be found; Then the man that lay with her
shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silvers, and she shall be
his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days."
(Deuteronomy 22:28-29)
Comment

The belief some get about the Biblical law leads them to think that it
represented a great advancement in morality. However, if we look at this law in
the social and economic context, it becomes evident that it did not come from
any moral ground, but rather to protect men's property rights of their wives and
daughters.

This law says that since an unmarried girl, a non-virgin, no longer serves as an
economically valuable asset, her father must receive compensation. As for the
legal requirement of the man that caused the economic problem, his marriage in
that society gave him practically unlimited power over their wives. Such forced
marriage can hardly serve as a concern for the poor girl's welfare.

Wives, Submit Yourselves!

"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the
husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and
he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ,
so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything." (Ephesians 5:22-24)
Comment

These words of Paul describe another instance for the calling of the submission
of women to their husbands. Note that the all inclusive "everything" could allow
husbands to submit their wives to anything, including rape, beatings, slavery,
etc.

(See also I Cor. 11:3-12, I Cor. 14:34-36, I Timothy 2:8-15, I Peter 3:1-7, Col.
3:18-19.)

Women Shall Not Speak

"Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them
to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is
a shame for women to speak in the church." (I Corinthians 14:34-35)
Comment

If one ever wishes to find an explanation of woman's inferiority to men, one
only has to look in the Bible. Paul makes clear and delineates the importance of
woman recognizing her place, "ad nauseam."

(See also I Cor. 11:3-12, I Timothy 2:8-15, I Peter 3:1-7, Ephesians 5:22-24,
Col. 3:18-19.)

   "The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world, that she
precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgment
seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a
condition of bondage, maternity a period suffering and anguish, and in silence
and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all
her material wants, and for all the information she might desire... Here is the
Bible position of woman briefly summed up."

   --Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Women's Sorrow

"Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception;
in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy
husband, and he shall rule over thee." (Genesis 3:16)
Comment

Not only does the Woman get blamed for the Fall, but God decides to multiply her
sorrow, plus, she must submit to her husband like a slave.

Religionists have used this verse as justification and "reason" for the pain and
punishment (sin) of childbirth and the sin of mankind. And to this day many
Christians, Jews and Islamics place women lower then men in the ranking of Godly
order. If ever there existed a more cruel justification against women, it could
not have done as much damage as from belief in Genesis 3:16. Because of the
belief in the Fall, countless Christians have branded the entire human race as
depraved.

Before the advent of male dominated religions, cultures around the world
respected women and worshipped goddesses. The Old Testament records the brutal
slaughter of surrounding cultures and slowly throughout the centuries, the
goddess religions faded away in place of the belief-system of a jealous,
scatological, male war god.

   "Christianity teaches that the human race is depraved, fallen, and sinful."
   --D. James Kennedy (Why I Believe, World Publishing, 1980)

Rip Up Pregnant Women

"Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they
shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their
women with child shall be ripped up." (Hosea 13:16)
Comment

Throughout the Bible, God smites those who do not believe in him or those who do
not follow his commands. Here we have the grotesque description of infants
dashed to pieces and pregnant women ripped up. Whatever rebellious nature an
infant's father or mother may have had, it bears no justice to an innocent child
or to an unborn fetus who could not possibly have rebelled against God, much
less understood him.

Anyone who claims to love such a God, must accept infanticide as one of God's
ugly revenges.

(See also Psalms 137:9)

The Wicked Woman

"Give me any plague, but the plague of the heart: and any wickedness, but the
wickedness of a woman." (Eccles. 25:13)

"Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die." (Eccles.
25:22)

"If she go not as thou wouldest have her, cut her off from thy flesh, and give
her a bill of divorce, and let her go." (Eccles. 25: 26)

"The whoredom of a woman may be known in her haughty looks and eyelids. If thy
daughter be shameless, keep her in straitly, lest she abuse herself through
overmuch liberty." (Eccles. 26:9-10)

"A silent and loving woman is a gift of the Lord: and there is nothing so much
worth as a mind well instructed. A shamefaced and faithful woman is a double
grace, and her continent mind cannot be valued." (Eccles. 26:14-15)

"A shameless woman shall be counted as a dog; but she that is shamefaced will
fear the Lord." (Eccles.26:25)

"For from garments cometh a moth, and from women wickedness. Better is the
churlishness of a man than a courteous woman, a woman, I say, which bringeth
shame and reproach." (Eccles. 42:13-14)
Comment

Ecclesiasticus of the Apocrypha does not appear in most Bibles. However, in
Catholic Bibles, the inferiority of woman still appears in the verses of
Ecclesiasticus. These verses give only a sampling from this book that lowers the
status of women.

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And I am telling you now Wagner, in the name of Nemesis, that you really should
sign their petition, and before you say any more, think very carefully about
what has befallen each and every X-tian who lied about me, and I warned Elmo
that Nemesis was coming several weeks ago, and I bet you all laughed so loudly.

How is the woman who was so fond of praying for me to *her* god, by the way?

Alan.

http://theoriginalfirebird.blogspot.com/

The fact that Russ was bragging about it was what I was pointing out, how he
took advantage of some "dummy".

Pointing out the fallacies of believing in a god is not being a religious
zealot. I don't notice you taking any of the many Christian zealots to task
but, like Alan said, you want to be a member in good standing of the god
fearing in group.

Cody

*snigger*

Yes, there are quite a few *hot-spots* around America, but they are nowhere near
you. What you really have to worry about is the Juan de Fuca trench:

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/JuanDeFucaRidge/description_juan_de_fuca.htm
l

And do you know what I find most enjoyable?

The fact that you have me kill-filed and won't be reading a single thing I say.

But Spidey does.

Alan, son of Nemesis.

Anyone who doubts that I am the son of Nemesis is obviously an infidel
lacking in faith whose soul is in peril of everlasting damnation.

"We love your adherence to democratic principles."

-- Vice President George Bush to Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos

http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/protector.html

http://theoriginalfirebird.blogspot.com/

http://www.insurgent.org/~jhd/kookway.htm

Nemesis, winged balancer of life,
dark-faced Goddess, daughter of Justice,
You who restrain with adamantine bridles
the frivolous insolences of mortals,
and spurning the destructive violence of mankind
drive out black envy!

Beneath Your unceasing, traceless orbit
is spun the grey fortune of man
and unnoticed You walk in his tracks,
you bend the neck that is proud.
Beneath Your arm You ever measure out life
and ever do You lower Your eye to Your bosom
as You control the scales in Your hand.

Be gracious, blessed dealer of justice,
Nemesis, winged balancer of life.
Nemesis the deathless Goddess we sing,
Victory with slender wings, all-powerful
infallible, and the assistant to Justice,
You who in displeasure at the pride of men
carry it down into Tartarus.