Re: A Question for Atheists About Charity Organizations.

Uzytkownik "William Barwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
napisal w wiadomosci
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> Robibnikoff wrote:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
isi says...
> > snip
> >>I don't know if that was a Mormon thing, but tampering with
the
> >>biographies of the dead is certainly an Atheist thing.
> >
> > Really?  Prove it.
> >
>
> No, its a christian thang.  Look up the book the "Herndon's
Life of
> Lincoln", by his law partner, Herndon.  Herndon related lots of
tales

Yep, lots of tales.

> about
> Lincoln's deism and lack of belief in Christianity.  The book
was a slow
> seller and a bunch of Methodist preachers hatched a plot at
their yearly
> Methodist confab  to quietly buy up all known copies and burn
them.

Got any proof of this? Any cites?

>  Only 9
> copies of the original printing survived, before it was
reprinted.

How many were printed originally? 10?

> You see, after Lincoln was assassinated he became the biggest
American hero
> since Washington and the Christians wanted to lie about his
religion.

You mean, scholars exposed Hemdon as an unreliable historian and
biographer.

> Never mind he lost early elections because Christians
trumpetted his
> unorthodoxy.

Lincoln lost several elections, doubtless caused by several
circumstances. The electorate was composed almost exclusively of
Christians.

[...]
> Atheists may want to look up the hordes of outrageous lies told
about
> Voltaire after his death.

I hope you're not suggesting that Voltaire was an atheist. He was
not.

> Honesty and Christianity have been enemies since day one.

The two being enemies can only be _possible_ if "Honesty" and
"Christianity" are individuals of a higher order.

> They even lie about themselves.  I have an amusing book on
medieval saints.
> Many of their relics were bones of nobodies

If it was an amusing book, it should have stated that the bones
were of bodies rather than nobodies.

> relic sellers told big whopping
> lies about. Some of these bones weren't even human bones.
Early on,
> since relics of saints was big business with monasteries due to
cash
> carrying pilgrims and tourists, they'd steal each others
relics.  And later
> would buy bones and make up big swotting lies, romantic tall
tales how they
> cleverly stole this saint's relics from a monastery where they
were not
> appreciated, pilgrims expected a big, daring tale ala Indiana
Jones, told
> with much brave posturing and dramaticism.  These bozos
couldn't even tell
> the truth about their 'saints' 'biographies' and relics, many
are still
> mouldering in churches all over Europe.
>
> If christians just knew about how silly and dishonest
biographies
> were in the hands of Christians for nearly 2 millenia, they'd
plotz.

Did you research all this or does it come from the Atheist
Scriptures? You make a lot of interesting statements, but in the
absence of evidence I remain skeptical as to their veracity.

isi