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Article #3460Re: Jewish Universalism
From: Arthur Brain
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:42
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:42
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"Qolon" <telos@bigpond.com> wrote in message news:<XZJ1d.31096$D7.25870@news-server.bigpond.net.au>... > "People like you also leaped to the conclusion that the world was flat, > that the sun went around the earth, etc, etc, etc, because they lacked > the intellectual tools to enquire and learn." ["Arthur Brain" > <arthur_brain@hotmail.com>] > > Actually the notion that "they thought the world was flat and that heaven > was just above the blue dome above us, where God peaked down at us through > holes in the sky (stars)" isn't a view of the cosmology that pervaded the > theological and philosophical intellectual conceptions of 20BCE to 50CE as > Philo of Alexandria being a pre-eminant Jewish authority of his time,... Philo of Alexandria was an intellectual whose achievements bear no relation to the non-sensical blatherings of "people like you".
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X-Google-Thread: f77fd,9573dc66a86fec05 X-Google-Thread: 10f18e,9573dc66a86fec05 X-Google-Thread: f4b1b,9573dc66a86fec05 X-Google-Thread: 1155f8,9573dc66a86fec05 X-Google-Thread: 1037b5,9573dc66a86fec05 X-Google-Attributes: gidf77fd,gid10f18e,gidf4b1b,gid1155f8,gid1037b5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail From: arthur_brain@hotmail.com (Arthur Brain) Newsgroups: canb.general,aus.religion,aus.religion.christian,aus.religion.judaism,aus.religion.islam Subject: Re: Jewish Universalism Date: 16 Sep 2004 04:42:15 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 15 Message-ID: <244ae90.0409160342.fd93ef4@posting.google.com> References: <c33c5677.0408312348.5f268273@posting.google.com> <c33c5677.0409012350.10d38114@posting.google.com> <vpCZc.16851$D7.2181@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <244ae90.0409070911.68ec6d3a@posting.google.com> <yIp%c.22929$D7.16960@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <244ae90.0409072331.21879fac@posting.google.com> <LuB%c.23581$D7.19703@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <244ae90.0409140740.4b3c64d4@posting.google.com> <XZJ1d.31096$D7.25870@news-server.bigpond.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.146.130.30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1095334936 17566 127.0.0.1 (16 Sep 2004 11:42:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:42:16 +0000 (UTC)