tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post1829605804509441600..comments2024-03-29T20:47:27.421+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond contends that biblical drivel is the mainstay of the lizard Oz ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-4835057978365441682017-03-23T19:42:01.839+11:002017-03-23T19:42:01.839+11:00Great post as always DP. Enjoyed the NY'er art...Great post as always DP. Enjoyed the NY'er article. Between Trump,Azerbaijanis,the Revolutionary Guard and Clarke lay all the follies and fantasies of that universal egalitarian free market thing. I presume it is all still going to plan,just like their Gods intended.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-73130460914439784052017-03-23T15:31:11.924+11:002017-03-23T15:31:11.924+11:00"They never give up, these bloody bible bashe...<i>"They never give up, these bloody bible bashers,"</i><br /><br />Indeed they don't DP, indeed they don't. The bit that caught my eye though, was this (from Clarke):<br /> <i>"Where the Bible has been freely available, a society has usually become more tolerant, more progressive and better off. This is admittedly sometimes hard to believe ..." </i><br /><br />Hard to believe ? No, not at all; you'd only have to ask yourself how "freely available" was a Bible only published in Latin so that it was, in fact, only available to priests. Then consider the fate of William Tyndale who produced an English Language version of the Bible. Wikipedia says this:<br /><br /><i>"A number of partial translations had been made from the seventh century onward, but the spread of Wycliffe's Bible resulted in a death sentence for any unlicensed possession of Scripture in English—even though translations had been accomplished and made available in all other major European languages."</i><br /><br />So based on Wycliffe's work and the Greek version of the New Testament, Tyndale produced a vernacular Bible for which:<br /><br /><i>"In 1535, Tyndale was arrested and jailed in the castle of Vilvoorde (Filford) outside Brussels for over a year. In 1536, he was convicted of heresy and executed by strangulation, after which his body was burnt at the stake."</i><br /><br />And just tp prove how much the church was in favour of free speech and love: <i>"Wycliffe's corpse was exhumed and burned and the ashes cast into the River Swift,</i><br /><br />[See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wycliffe ]<br /><br />Yep, that's what a "more tolerant" society looks like, dunnit.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-86735135405747078272017-03-23T14:38:21.373+11:002017-03-23T14:38:21.373+11:00This essay by Greg Clarke was placed in the middle...This essay by Greg Clarke was placed in the middle of the reptiles opinion page. It was hi-lighted in a different colour in contrast to the white background of the rest of the page.<br />A friend of mind had a recent short-lived infatuation with Nalliah' outfit. It was shortly after the trumpenfuhrer was elected. They were watching reports of his victory on a TV broadcast. They were all loudly clapping and cheering with enthusiasm.<br /><br />Meanwhile in the context of USA politics, the trumpenfuhrer and the rising influence of the alt-right, including the blood-sucking "religious" zombies associated (manipulating and even controlling) the fuhrer the essay by Sarah Posner titled Amazing Disgrace is essential reading.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com