Here are some more of the things people have said about my Religion Articles. I did not make this up. The material is cut and pasted from e-mail, so any typos are in the originals. No senders names will ever be included. All of these folks received a personal reply (not included here) if they provided a valid email address. While I ache to reply to some of these remarks on the web page, I'm not going to because that would be unfair because the writers have no way to reply. The Unification Church once had some USENET articles of mine on a web site, with comments that I could not reply to, so I know how that feels.
JS wrote:
Kevin,
"Convicted Nazi war criminals such as Albert Speer wrote their memoirs, but can we trust those who have a vested interest in the rehabilitation of their own reputations? "
Excellent, so why should anyone trust the Bible, etc. etc. or any other artifact, person(s) that supports the same? Many call it faith, but faith in what? Contradictions in spriptures have been or have become rationalised; persons believe in what they have been told by others or they believe in what they want to believe (which may have no basis in reality, what ever that may be). In this regard, as you state people went along with the Nazi party out of fear (which may be true), Hitler becomes no different than God because God also strikes fear in those that believe in him (where's the good or what is good). Fear is the whole basis for a person to do what God says (or what Man says God said). The faithful fear God, they must. Your question should not be, Was Hitler a Christain, but, Did Hitler use God or more percisely, How did God use (manipulate) Hitler?
M wrote:
I must break from reading your articles...simply outstanding, honest, fair, and well written....presently I am checking out the dates of composition.
ML wrote (regarding my article on the King James Only movement):
It is a personal thing, Kevin. You're free to believe whatever you want about "bibles". But, our choice is to believe that God has perfected his word, in English, in the AV. That is our "personal thing". Why does that irritate you so? You know why?
Because you're jealous. We have a bible. We have a conviction. We have a perfect, pure, preserved word of God. What do you have, Kevin?
DD wrote (regarding my article on Animal Sacrifices):
Are you suggesting in your article that the Bibles record of God's Words is not 100% correct? And that it has been edited by Jewish leaders or whatever? Pls get bk to me on this as soon as you can :P[in response to my reply I received this]
Well I'm not 'disgusted with you' no :p Thanks for your response, it's clear you took a lot of time about it.
I agree that God isn't going to be getting great kicks from animals being burnt. But I also believe that the whole of the Bible is totally accurate and God-breathed, miraculous as that may be. Off the top of my head I suppose theres the Bible code to back that up.
I read your article and contacted you while attempting to communicate to a former pagan, who is head over heels for animals, how God could condone animal sacrifices. I guess I think a combination of this lot:-
- Bloods gotta be spilled to atone for sin (although animals are still inoccent)
- God never wanted them to sin in the first place, so didn't want them to sacrifice animoos.
- The animals were like source of income, and a bunch of resources. God liked the tithing of the thing, if it was in the right spirit.He couldn't thole it as a token way to get on God's side.
- It allowed the Jews to understand the Lamb of God atoning for their sins.
MS Wrote:
Just read your page at:It comes close but no cigar... I do not have time to go into detail... Let me preface that I am pro-James and anti-Paul.I see Paul as being short sighted. His process or method is correct, however, he failed to see the full implications of his own teachings. He disregarded very important issues that James retains. If Paul had seen the full implications of his own teachings, then he would have not ignored certain teachings of James.I apologize for being vague, but to go into greater detail could spark too long of a discussion of which I do not have time for at this point.
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