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From: rlr@pyuxjj.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Is the jury biased?
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Date: Wed, 25-May-83 10:00:49 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 25 10:00:49 1983
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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....