Religous Argumentationating

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Ratatosk, I'm using the labels becuase though it isnt exact, its generally simpler to say "eclectic wicca" than go into explaining my full belief system if it comes up in conversation,

Yes, I tell people I'm a Scientologist, which is easier than explaining Discordianism.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

The second point is somewhat irrelevant to the question I posed. I wanted ph to explain what significance the Jews had in the Bible, since it was just a vague one word item on his list. Of course the Bible might not be 100% accurate in regard to history.

Ah I see your point.

[pH]

Roger, i know you hate me, so I'm going to glady carry on calling it Wicca because i like to.

[Don Coyote]

Roger, i know you hate me, so I'm going to glady carry on calling it Wicca because i like to.

[Phox]

Of course the Bible might not be 100% accurate in regard to history.

Balls.  Elijah taught those UFOs a thing or two about coming around here slumming.  He was fucking hardcore, and killed the alien with one punch.  No whimpering about a probing from HIM, let me tell you.

Did he "Welcome to Earth" as he did so? That's what it says in the New English Standard Edition.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Roger, i know you hate me, so I'm going to glady carry on calling it Wicca because i like to.

Good show.  

And I don't hate you because of anything you've done, but because of what you are.  I'm sort of like Jesus in that respect.  You could be so much like me that I could use your photograph as a shaving mirror, and I would still hate you with the fire of a thousand suns.

Just so we're clear on that.

TGRR,
Always happy to plod up and explain things to mortals.

[pH]

Just one of those Holy^tm characteristics.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Of course the Bible might not be 100% accurate in regard to history.

Balls.  Elijah taught those UFOs a thing or two about coming around here slumming.  He was fucking hardcore, and killed the alien with one punch.  No whimpering about a probing from HIM, let me tell you.

Did he "Welcome to Earth" as he did so? That's what it says in the New English Standard Edition.

Well, yes, but that was just a one-liner.  Like Bruce Willis does.

And then he sent that grey, goggle-eyed bastard home in a bag.  You have to remember that this was a time when the next village over was considered to be Godless, subhuman foreign trash...Imagine how they'd feel about an actual alien.  It occurs to me that the Native Americans would have been better off with a horrible crankey old Hebrew prophet or three.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Just one of those Holy^tm characteristics.

You never saw Samuel walking aroung glad-handing people, right?  Fuck no. 

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Roger, i know you hate me, so I'm going to glady carry on calling it Wicca because i like to.

But it's a fairly inaccurate picture of what's going on. Why further dilute the meaning of the word when you could say something like agnostic atheist, or spiritual atheist?

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Ratatosk, I'm using the labels becuase though it isnt exact, its generally simpler to say "eclectic wicca" than go into explaining my full belief system if it comes up in conversation, although how close i am to 'correct' Wicca varies depending on how life is going for me, only the general concepts you mentioned that I had said never change.

Have you been inducted into the mysteries? Have you been accepted into a coven? If the answer is 'no', then you are never close to 'correct' Wicca.

However, you are close to "Generic Uneducated Pantheistic Pagan Yammering" also known as The GUPPY Belief System.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Of course the Bible might not be 100% accurate in regard to history.

Balls.  Elijah taught those UFOs a thing or two about coming around here slumming.  He was fucking hardcore, and killed the alien with one punch.  No whimpering about a probing from HIM, let me tell you.

Did he "Welcome to Earth" as he did so? That's what it says in the New English Standard Edition.

Well, yes, but that was just a one-liner.  Like Bruce Willis does.

And then he sent that grey, goggle-eyed bastard home in a bag.  You have to remember that this was a time when the next village over was considered to be Godless, subhuman foreign trash...Imagine how they'd feel about an actual alien.  It occurs to me that the Native Americans would have been better off with a horrible crankey old Hebrew prophet or three.

The golden tablets said they did

[pH]

My aunt is in a coven, I'm currently on the whole year-and-a-day bit.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

My aunt is in a coven, I'm currently on the whole year-and-a-day bit.

And you still present your beliefs as you have in this thread?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

My aunt is in a coven, I'm currently on the whole year-and-a-day bit.

Get a new aunt.