HA! Love this, Max. The headline's pretty close to correct, innit? I
wonder if Francis Macnab writes poetry and would want to join this list?
Hon. joodles
2008/9/15 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> Quoting Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> > No disclaimers were needed, Doug; you 'got' my points exactly---the most
> > important, of course, being the Grand Design one, and important for
> > precisely the reason you've suggested; that it's iffy whether God has a
> > Design.
> > That's why it's delicious to discuss.
>
> Billboards have just gone up in Melbourne:
>
> THE TEN COMMANDMENTS THE MOST
> NEGATIVE DOCUMENT EVER WRITTEN
> Sunday at St Michael's
>
> Today's Melbourne 'Age' reports:
>
> controversial cleric Francis Macnab yesterday launched "a new faith for the
> 21st
> century", a faith beyond orthodox Christianity.
> Dr Macnab says Abraham is probably a concoction, Moses was a mass murderer
> and
> Jesus Christ just a Jewish peasant who ceretainly was not God. In fact,
> there is
> no God, in the usual sense of an interventionist deity - what we strive for
> is a
> presence both within and beyond us.
>
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