On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:59:20 -0700, U.S. Janet B. >
wrote:

>On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 12:36:05 -0400, wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:11:42 -0700, graham > wrote:
>>
>>>On 2018-01-30 9:00 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>> On 2018-01-30 10:12 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>>> On 1/30/2018 9:54 AM, wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Very interesting - so that made her good enough to have baby Jesus
>>>>>> without actually having sex with a man?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Never was taught that in 12 years of Catholic school.
>>>>> I'm too skeptical to be a good follower of any religion anyway.
>>>>
>>>> Churches have a way of indoctrinating people into believing a lot of
>>>> their rhetoric.* Repeating it over and over helps. While they may say
>>>> that reciting prayers remind us of our faith and believes, it also acts
>>>> to make us believe it is actually true. The Bible is quite clear about
>>>> Mary being a Virgin. Granted, most of us get that from modern English
>>>> versions of the Bible, and some will argue that the term meant something
>>>> else at the time, like that they weren't yet married but were engaged...
>>>>
>>>> Another common on is about Eve getting sucked into eating that apple.
>>>> There is no apple in the Genesis story.* There is no apple tree. It was
>>>> the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
>>>
>>>What it boils down to is that it is all squit, twaddle and bunkum!
>>>And just look at all the conflicts and human misery caused by religion.
>>
>>It's far harder to name wars that were not about religion
>
>In the 'name of religion' -- with some guy at the top stirring the
>peasants up so as to help him win the land or power he wants.
>A rallying cry always works 'Make America Great Again.'
>Janet US

He also does the age old thing of firing up hate, it's chilling.