Facts:
1. The Bible is the first compilation of recorded writing (aka a “book”) by MAN in western civilization; not by God or any supernatural beings. And definitely not the first written book in the world; bounded Chinese writings (aka a “book”) predates the Bible by 1,000 years.
2. The Bible is written by men who knew men who knew Jesus. Neither Jesus himself, nor his disciples (John, Paul, etc.) had anything to do with the Bible. The Bible is composed at least 70 to 100 years after the death of Jesus by men who never met Jesus before.
3. The above 2 facts are taught by the instructor on the first day of the lower division class, Children’s Literature 101, a required course at the University of Texas at Austin. Do not argue with me, go after the state of Texas if you want to stop this “heresy”.

I can go on and on about religions being great philosophies teaching us how to live life, and how zealots manipulate these religions to justify their action. But I will not waste my time. Just know that no one should be punished for what they believe in.

I believe the O’Hair case is an unfortunately example of the society punishing individuals for their beliefs. This mob mentality is further reflected thru APD’s way of handling the murder case, or the lack of…

I do not understand why APD pratically gave up on the investigation from the get go, but after speaking to a few retired APD officers here in Austin I kinda get the clue. I cannot divulge much, but you may want to take a guess at who David Waters (the murderer who only got 80 years in jail time for killing 4 people in TEXAS, where they hang you for assisted suicide) is related to…

This the path of blindness and death, without hope, without God.

Psalm 53:
1] The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
[2] God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
[3] Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
[4] Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
[5] There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

4. Ezras. 8
(56)For when they had taken liberty, they despised the most High, thought scorn of his law, and forsook his ways.
[57] Moreover they have trodden down his righteous,
[58] And said in their heart, that there is no God; yea, and that knowing they must die.
[59] For as the things aforesaid shalt receive you, so thirst and pain are prepared for them: for it was not his will that men should come to nought:
[60] But they which be created have defiled the name of him that made them, and were unthankful unto him which prepared life for them.
[61] And therefore is my judgment now at hand.

“Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.”- Psalm 50:22

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.- Proverbs 5:22

The Bible mentions that God is slow to anger and merciful. And surely He is. But He is also Holy and Just in all his ways. He is also greatly to be feared, because He is not man, but God. If He makes a way crooked, there is no one that can make it straight.
Apart from God there is no life. The Bible clearly mentions that “all those who hate God, love death”. And it is to their own peril, that people turn against God.

Is this message grave ? yes. Is it fearful? yes. Is it true? yes.

It is as true as it is fearful. Imagine one day, you wake up and decide that the law of gravity does not apply to you anymore and that you wish to be free of it’s force. And say that your wish does come true and you alone were granted to be free from gravity. What would happen? Without no force to pull you to the ground, you would end up in space and then you would die because of the conditions present there.

SO it is with God. We can try to ignore Him, escape Him or even deny Him to avoid His presence. But if we are not with Him, we no longer are under His protection and guidance. And because of this we like sheep are capable of wandering away into darkness and death. No matter how much man tries, he cannot escape God.

“Madalyn dearly loved her children; everyone close to her commented on it. She bent over backwards to help them, give them every advantage, and make them feel treasured. And they did; they knew how much she loved them.”

I thought J.R.Ortiz’ comment, ‘even Moslems i can understand’ was very strange. Moslem’s, like Jews are capable of believing things just as strange as Christians, unsurprising given they are all Abrahamic religions.

i also find the bigoted, ‘bible-bashing’ responses quite strange. Surely jesus is your exemplar, as gentle, forgiving and compassionate entity. Why is there a need to resuscitate the angry, selfish, vengeful god of the old testament. all it conjours is the image of a Fundamentalist Christian Jihad.

Peace

All the stuff about God and Jesus is opinion. The only power of prayer is in the mind. Jews prayed during the holocaust, didn’t they? So why would “God” help you if he didn’t help them? The power of religion is your mindset. If you believe it works, you’re going to see all the signs that it works and ignore the signs that it doesn’t.

Oh, and Earlene Anderson…it’s no good putting Anonymous and pretending you’re three different people if you put the same email address WITH YOUR NAME for each post. And they’re all posted around the same time. Not even good comments-you’re really ignorant- at least the other religious comment was logical and more tolerant.

Okay, now that I’ve gone off on a tangent…interesting interview. Makes me wonder what it would be like if I was forced to take religion classes and pray in school. Scary thought…Scarier yet that people hated someone who, while no saint, was only trying to protect the rights of non-christian individuals…

Fry, the third kidnapper was, so I read, not present at the actual kidnapping. That would mean that two people had to kidnap three. That is hard to believe. Especially if they, as stated above “bonded” with their kidnappers, and were treated well. They would have to use the bathroom, they have to eat, they made calls back to the origanization, and Jon took trips, even by airplane, and one included picking up $500,000 in gold. (If the money was simply going to the kidnappers, why gold? That would seem more likely if O’Hair was planning to leave the country.)

According to what I read the jewler, who did not know Jon, or ask for ID as far as I read, but later identified him, said he was alone when he picked up the gold and asked for a police escort to his car. Obviously it would be simple to inform the police of this situation, so it seems.

So a great deal of this is very, very hard to understand. I would hope that more of this could be figured out.

Then there is always that nagging question, was Atheism an important aspect of the crime? I suppose it could happen to others, maybe anybody, of course. But the situation is incredibly strange, including the fact that most of the gold, about $400,000, vanished out of a locker supplied by Water’s girlfriend. The police later caught and convicted the juveniles involved.

Editors:

No. She could have **had** an illness, but “be” ” it? What a curious linguistic convention, prejudice. ]

Could she have “been” cancerous would never occur. The above should not.

Harold A. Maio
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