tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post8951199632209423518..comments2024-03-28T22:29:52.666+13:00Comments on Anglican Down Under: Ezra, Calvin, and the spirit of legalism within the CommunionPeter Carrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-68534928241819350692008-09-20T14:09:00.000+12:002008-09-20T14:09:00.000+12:00Calvin was one of the most montrous human beings t...Calvin was one of the most montrous human beings that ever lived.<BR/><BR/>He helped create the colourless, joyless, dour, fascist totalitarian mini-state in Geneva where people were executed for the most trivial of reasons. He even allowed his own relatives (by marriage) to be executed for and absurdly trivial reason.<BR/><BR/>Who would Jesus execute?<BR/><BR/>Once a person is suitably constrained, execution of anyone is never justified.<BR/><BR/>Plus Clavin's legacy is very much alive in grim-faced puritan America via the righteous zealots in the Bush administration. It used to be the boast of USA right-wing "religionsts" that "god's man" (that is George Bush) was/is in the White House.<BR/><BR/>Any and every one who subscribes to such an obscene notion is completely and utterly deranged.<BR/><BR/>Who would Jesus bomb?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-38055385896205613852008-09-20T14:00:00.000+12:002008-09-20T14:00:00.000+12:00The only thing that you be completely certain of i...The only thing that you be completely certain of is that your mortal meat-body is going to disintegrate and die.<BR/><BR/>And in a world in which ALL of the Sacred Scriptures of the entire Great Tradition of Humankind are freely available to anyone with an internet connection of what relevance is Ezra, a fictional character from the "sacred" texts of a then tiny tribal cult in Palestine/Israel, got to do with anything?<BR/><BR/>Why should it have any binding relevance to anyone in 2008, especially to the overwhelming majority of human beings who are not Christians.<BR/><BR/>Plus me-thinks you ought to check out.<BR/><BR/>www.jesusneverexisted.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com