Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 05/09/07 15:54, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:12:05 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
>> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:49:41PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 05:23:13 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>> On 05/09/07 05:10, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:08:42PM +1000, SB wrote:
>>>>>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>> [snip]
>>>>>>> You haven't read the Bible lately, have you?
>>>>>> Does it get updated on a regular basis ?
>>>>>>
>>>>> It is feature complete and bug-free.  No need for updates.
>>>> Except for that part where a circle is defined to be 3x the diameter...
>>> I seem to remember that there are also a fair number of contradictions
>>> and race conditions between various parts of it.
>>>
>> Please point one out.
> 
> It always struck me as odd that the gospels could not agree on whether
> Josef and Maria had to go Bethlehem for a census or if they had been
> living there already.

Which canon Gospel is that in?  Both Matthew and Luke say that the
couple traveled from Nazareth to Bethlehem.

>                       Also, to my knowledge, the census story is
> inconsistent with historical facts. If I remember correctly it was
> important that the messiah had been born in Bethlehem and was a
> descendent of David if you wanted to have any hope of convincing Jews to
> accept him. Looks a bit like people tried to fit the story to that and
> forgot to check their versions with each other, or not?

I agree with you about the need for "them" to make it look like
Jesus was born in Bethlehem.

> (I am currently in a hotel with a time-limited internet connection and
>  it will run out in a few minutes. Therefore I cannot provide the actual
>  citations right now. I will be back online on Friday, but by then this
>  thread will probably have gone to hell anyway.)
> 


- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFGQkM6S9HxQb37XmcRAtjvAKC/wi9CZkUAo2Qcmpxd1WMtEZJQJwCeLpwi
Ev8TLu0m/yCST2BzNe5DdFc=
=5HHB
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----