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Thread #79712 Message #1447521
Posted By: Bill D
30-Mar-05 - 11:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: Ten Commandments on Public Property?
Subject: RE: BS: Ten Commandments on Public Property?
I remember reading this when I was a junior in high school...for some reason, it has always stuck with me:
"With the old Deities hath it long since come to an end:--and verily, a good joyful Deity-end had they!
They did not "begloom" themselves to death--that do people fabricate! On the contrary, they--LAUGHED themselves to death once on a time!
That took place when the unGodliest utterance came from a God himself--the utterance: "There is but one God! Thou shalt have no other Gods before me!"--
--An old grim-beard of a God, a jealous one, forgot himself in such wise:--
And all the Gods then laughed, and shook upon their thrones, and exclaimed:
"Is it not just divinity that there are Gods, but no God?"
from "Also Sprach Zarathustra
...Fredrich Nietzsche (this is an English translation, I don't know exactly how it might read in German...I remember it differently, but that was 50 years ago)