Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!microsof!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5b!hou5c!hou5e!hou5a!hou5d!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!mhuxi!mhuxa!mhuxm!pyuxi!pyuxjj!rlr From: rlr@pyuxjj.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Is the jury biased? Message-ID: <487@pyuxjj.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-May-83 10:00:49 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxjj.487 Posted: Wed May 25 10:00:49 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 29-May-83 06:37:52 EDT References: qubix.269 Lines: 29 re: Larry Bickford's article 1. Saying that there were 500 witnesses is called hearsay testimony and as such is inadmissible as evidence in a court of law. And with good reason. 2. Your talk of "who is truly free" sounds like the axiom "FREEDOM IS SLAVERY" from Orwell's 1984. Perhaps you think that god as Big Brother is O.K. I refuse to accept such nonsense. Even if it were so, that god's will was to be obeyed like that of Big Brother, all people with a shred of human dignity left (human dignity stripped from people by both Big Brother and western religionists) would not accept this. If this is your idea of the end of civilization, it is our idea of its true beginning. (I hardly think that the tortures people have endured over the centuries at the hands of religionists qualifies as civilization.) When you say "history proves otherwise" with regard to humanity making its own choices, you must be referring to the choice made by people to accept the indignities of religion. 3. I offer you a similar challenge to your own. Prove to me that Ubizmo, the god of shoe-polish and wax museums, does not exist.... I'm waiting... Now do you see the reason why no one replied to your challenge to disprove the resurrection. Even if I had a written document dated 8000 years ago written by Ubizmina, high priestess of the ancient Ubizminian religion, saying that she saw Ubizmo turn a frog into a Chevrolet, why should I (or you) believe that? Interesting that you don't believe Greek/Roman accounts of their gods, but you place absolute faith in other accounts. Sort of arbitrary, no? Unless you have evidence beyond the printed word....