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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux provides software to study the Bible, out of the box
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:11:48 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-04-17, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-04-17 09:56, Borax Man wrote:
>> On 2025-04-17, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> On 2025-04-17 04:50, RonB wrote:
>>>> On 2025-04-16, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-04-16 08:50, RonB wrote:
>>>>>> On 2025-04-16, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 4/15/25 21:05, rbowman wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:57:01 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I know that it probably won't interest most people, but I thought that
>>>>>>>>> was pretty cool. Knowing that a distribution provides not only the Bible
>>>>>>>>> but notes to help you study the content is neat. Maybe if our resident
>>>>>>>>> homosexual gets acquainted with it, he will have a chance of avoiding
>>>>>>>>> Hell.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Are you talking about UbuntuCE?  If you're looking for enlightenment out
>>>>>>>> of the box:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://www.bodhilinux.com/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Bodhi Linux appears to be more of a minimalist philosophical statement
>>>>>>>> rather than any specific Buddhist content.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Actually, I was referring to Xiphos which allows you to download your
>>>>>>> choice of Bible version from within the software.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Apparently no Catholic Bible with the deuterocanonicals. I'm guessing their
>>>>>> notes are skewed against the Catholic Church. Hopefully they're not relying
>>>>>> on the Scofield Bible notes in any way.
>>>>>
>>>>> That is quite possible. I downloaded the New English Translation, but I
>>>>> have no idea whether it skews in one way or another. According to some
>>>>> experts I've read from, Bibles vary from one region to another with some
>>>>> having more chapters than others, but their meaning is essentially the
>>>>> same. Apparently, there are about forty differences in the wording used,
>>>>> but the meaning isn't altered in any way.
>>>>>
>>>>> I trust the Bible, but I don't trust the interpretations made by
>>>>> homosexuals or progressives.
>>>>
>>>> The deuterocanonicals are an important part of the Bible. They clearly
>>>> pointed to Christ, which is why the Jews eventually threw them out, and
>>>> Protestants followed their example.
>>>>
>>>> Here's an excerpt from Wisdom 2:12-20. This may help explain why the Jews
>>>> rejected the deuterocanonicals (they were originally in the LXX or
>>>> Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible).
>>>>
>>>>      12. “Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient
>>>>      to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law,
>>>>      and accuses us of sins against our training. 13. He professes to have
>>>>      knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord. 14. He became to
>>>>      us a reproof of our thoughts; 15. the very sight of him is a burden to us,
>>>>      because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are
>>>>      strange. 16. We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our
>>>>      ways as unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts
>>>>      that God is his father. 17. Let us see if his words are true, and let us
>>>>      test what will happen at the end of his life; 18. for if the righteous man
>>>>      is God’s son, he will help him and will deliver him from the hand of his
>>>>      adversaries. 19. Let us test him with insult and torture, that we may find
>>>>      out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance. 20. Let us
>>>>      condemn him to a shameful death, for, according to what he says, he will
>>>>      be protected.”
>>>>
>>>> This was written centuries before Christ's death on the cross. There's also
>>>> a lot about the Virgin Mary in the deuterocanonicals, as interpreted by
>>>> Catholic saints.
>>>
>>> The fact that such a thing would be written centuries before Christ and
>>> that the events would unfold in almost exactly the same manner only
>>> confirms that Jesus was exactly the Messiah the Jews were waiting for.
>>> Their continued resistance to Him is ridiculous.
>>>
>>> Where would I be able to find the deuterocanonicals?
>>>
>> 
>> Why do Americans use the term Judeo-Christian so much, and why do
>> American Christians have such a hard on for Israel?
>
> Because American values, whether they want to admit it or not, are 
> similar to those of Jews. Nevertheless, I am not a fan of the term 
> because I don't believe that Jews, practicing or not, have any respect 
> for our religion. American Christians, for their part, seem to love 
> Israel because they believe the government narrative that it is "the 
> greatest ally in the Middle East." Again, I don't see it that way since 
> they do little other than suck the American tit.

It goes deeper than politics. Christians were purposely indoctrinated into 
believing in such a thing as Christian "Zionism." For well over a century 
now. Originally it was a Protestant phenomenon but it's even infected 
Vatican II Catholics now.

>> You think they'd be
>> a bit more sceptical of a people who SPECIFICALLY rejected Christ.
>> 
>> Its like Linux supporters supporting Steve Ballmer...
>
> Agreed.

Exactly.


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“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien