No one wants their last words to be "Oh my God! The old gypsy woman was right..."
Thomas Paine:
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize Mankind; and for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.”
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Paine was bang-on much of the time. What astounds me is that SO many neoconservatives tout their bible knowledge when in obvious fact they are oblivious to their own recapitulation of the old testament evils.
M. Douglas Wray 
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10:07 pm 4/20/2008