> and for the past ~6,000 years since Adam first sinned, putting away sin ... forever.
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And there we have the yardstick for a grip on reality.
You certainly seem to have bought the whole snake-handler package. So you accept the Ussher Chronology putting Creation in 4004 BC? Is that how you came up with 6000 years?
Did you believe any of this before July 1 2004?
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
