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- From: uphrrmk@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Jack Coyote)
- Subject: Critical Thought
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.193312.27059@coe.montana.edu>
- Summary: Measure twice, cut once.
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- Reply-To: uphrrmk@terra.oscs.montana.edu (Jack Coyote)
- Organization: Never Had It, Never Will
- References: <1993Jan24.160656.1620@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <2B63263F.9583@news.service.uci.edu> <adams.727986896@spssig>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:33:12 GMT
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- In alt.pagan, cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese) and adams@spss.com
- (Steve Adams) write:
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- Janis>I can say plainly that I don't know any catholics and never have
- Janis>that actually think too long on that old line about transubstantiation.
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- (as another person raised catholic)... a lack of critical examination seems
- to be the rule rather than the exception for most religions. In regards to
- Catholicism/Christianity, it is easy to see why a careful examination of ritual
- cannibalism/diabolism is not easily faced (turning a death cult into a life
- cult entails paradox).
-
- Please note that this tendancy is NOT religion specific, esp. those of you
- with spudlings. (Would you deny anyone the chance to learn as you did? The
- long way home often is most interesting.)
-
- Janis>I mean, it TASTES like a cracker, for God(tm)'s sake! How the HELL is
- Janis>this going to be someone's flesh?
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- Steve>How? Remember that the host retains the 'accident' of bread and the blood
- Steve>retains the 'accident' of wine. Not that I beleive it.
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- Allegory & metaphor (never mind that the priesthood are too thick too get it)
- Always recall (if you wish to follow Jesus(tm)) that his primary method of
- instruction was the parable.
-
- Tell us a story Unca' Jesus! Flames to alt.dev.null
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- "Pound for pound, lame puns are your best entertainment value." -- Gogo Dodo
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