Re: Making money from Java

Chuck Stevens wrote:

> No, I think that's an oversimplification.

Well of course it is, it is the nature of theologins to overcomplexify
things, so anything that I say woul;d be 'oversimplified'.

> The doctrine of "original sin" ties into it (a doctrine about which I have
> serious misgivings).

> According to the doctrine of Immaculate Conception, pronounced ex cathedra
> by Pius IX on 8 December 1854, Mary was *conceived* without sin. Her
> personal sinlessness throughout her life is generally accepted, but some
> early fathers disagreed.

As do most churches outside of 'The Cult of Mary' as some would call
it. It seems to me that the whole thing is based on a meaningless
distinction between the so-called 'immaculate conception' _of_ Mary and
_in_ Mary.

> If original sin there be, I think he bore its stain;

Excuse me, but then what is the point of the so-called 'immaculate
conception'. Either Mary was sinless so that Jesus could be without
original sin or he was the target of the immaculate conception so he
was without sin regardless of Mary's situation.

But then I am expecting too much for there to be any sort of logic or
consistency in the mythology.

> His temptations and sufferings are meaningless absent the completeness of a
> truly *human* nature.

Granted, just as Gandi's would have been meaningless if he could wave a
wand and make it all better.

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