(July 23, 2015 at 3:20 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: People keep saying that this stuff is all phony, but I was raised a Southern Baptist and that site is only a slight exaggeration. Since Southern Baptists allow a good amount of variation from one church to the next, I imagine that there are some Southern Baptist churches for which it would be only a teeny, tiny exaggeration. If even that.
I remember when they started - in the world of the largely unmoderated Internet boards - it just seemed like a more overtly comedic version of some of the people we'd become used to and slightly less insane than some.
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
