[Vision2020] Hymn to the Intelligent Designer by Monty Python

[Tony]

No Ralph, I quite understand that you don't view the Bible as consistent or 
compassionate.  What I was attempting (for the second time) was to determine 
what YOUR personal conclusion is as to the existence or nonexistence of an 
overarching intelligence.

Later,  -T
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Nielsen" <nielsen at uidaho.edu>
To: "Tony" <tonytime at clearwire.net>
Cc: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Hymn to the Intelligent Designer by Monty Python


> Tony,
>
> Is God a mean S.O.B.? Not according to himself. By the end of the  sixth 
> day of creation "God saw everything that he had made, and  indeed, it was 
> very good" (Genesis 1:31a).
>
> However, later in the Bible God does admit that he is a S.O.B. "I  form 
> light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe--I the  LORD do all 
> these things" (Isaiah 45:7). The Jewish Study Bible says  that here the 
> word "woe" is the same as "evil." p. 875.
>
> So try to have a pleasant Sabbath, Tony. It will soon be over--at 
> sundown.
>
> Ralph
>
> On Jan 27, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Tony wrote:
>
>> Wow Ralph, that's quite the little poem you chose to share.  So  does 
>> this mean that you are in fact a devout believer who happens  to view his 
>> God as a mean S.O.B.?
>>
>> Try to have a pleasant Sunday.    -T
>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph Nielsen"  <nielsen at uidaho.edu>
>> To: <Vision2020 at moscow.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 10:07 AM
>> Subject: [Vision2020] Hymn to the Intelligent Designer by Monty Python
>>
>>
>>>
>>> All things dull and ugly
>>> All creatures short and squat,
>>> All things rude and nasty,
>>> The Lord God made the lot.
>>>
>>> Each little snake that poisons,
>>> Each little wasp that stings,
>>> He made their brutish venom.
>>> He made their horrid wings
>>>
>>> All things sick and cancerous,
>>> All evil great and small,
>>> All things foul and dangerous,
>>> The Lord God made them all.
>>>
>>> Each nasty little hornet,
>>> Each beastly little squid--
>>> Who made the spiky urchin?
>>> Who made the sharks? He did!
>>>
>>> All things scabbed and ulcerous,
>>> All pox both great and small,
>>> Putrid, foul and gangrenous,
>>> The Lord God made them all.
>>>
>>> Amen.
>
>