Tony Woodcock
On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Miracle wrote:
> RJV 3/28
> Tony seems to think that nudity is evil. I guess he doesn,t realize that
> his god has commanded people to parade around in the nude!
>
> Isaiah 20: 1-6 (NIV)
> (Pay special attention to verses 2-4)
>
> 1 In the year that the supreme commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria,
> came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it--
>
> 2 at that time the LORD spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him,
> "Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet."
> And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot.
>
> 3 Then the LORD said, "Just as my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and
> barefoot for three years, as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush,
>
> 4 so the king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the
> Egyptian
> captives and Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared--to
> Egypt's shame.
>
> 5 Those who trusted in Cush and boasted in Egypt will be afraid and put
> to shame.
>
> 6 In that day the people who live on this coast will say, `See what has
> happened to those we relied on, those we fled to for help and deliverance
> from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?'"
>
> -- R Jason Valentine ..ooOO miracle@procyon.com
>
> "Anti-intellectualism among millenarians and Bible Literalists is a
> recurrent phenomenon, but no other religious movement in America ever
> has been as programatically set against its intellect as are Jehovah's
> Witnesses. The Fundamentalist majority wing of the Southern Baptist
> Convention are devotees of pure reason compared to Jehovah's Witnesses."
> [Harold Bloom, The American Religion, pg. 162
>