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Entry: Pentecost: Because Fire is Cool Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/pentecost_because_fire_is_cool#1476 Post contents: PS, eh what the hell, I'll bite. WL Wheeler (heh, in China, a "Wheeler" is slang for a Falun Gong cult fanatic) wrote: 1. "There was NO king at the Tower of Babel." The story in Genesis mentions a political leader of some kind named Nimrod. But it's hard to translate his status as an early-Bronze-age tyrant into anything remotely equivalent to Britain's Constitutional Monarch of today. Actually he has more in common with Tony Blair than with Good Queen Bess II. 2. "And NO the Tower of Babel was NOT reversed at Pentecost." Why not? If Christ's resurrection was a reversal of the essential Human condition of death, then, a fortiori, wouldn't Christ have the power to reverse the conditions of Babel? 3. "Miscegenation is now blessed by God when it was cursed in the Old? I think not." Well then obviously you're not a Catholic or any kind of traditional Protestant, because all of those churches bless marriages between, well between any male and female Christians who have no impediments such as being married to someone else, or incest. Although there might be a few exceptions among some marginal freak-cults who pretend to call themselves "Christian." 4. "The philosophical dictum is that Truth does not counterdict Truth; All Truth agrees with each other." But truth is historical, and all of our temporal mortal languages are as imperfect as history, and so Truth is a continuing story with many aspects. 5. "Christianity is not the United Nations." That's only a half-truth. The whole truth is that Christianity transcends nations. 6. "Chaos is not the Way of Christianity." That's another half truth. The other part of the truth is, Christianity is not the way of being a boring stick-in-the mud. Sent at: 2008 10 07