XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: sam@spade.invalid   
      
   "chine.bleu"  wrote:   
   > Samuel Spade wrote:   
   > >> Before there were lines to read between, the story was widespread and   
   > >> >accepted.   
   > >   
   > > That totally must be true.  It said so in the gospels!   
   > >   
   > >> >   
   >   
   > Hard to know who was deluded. It remains the story spread, and people   
   > would die for it. That has to be accounted for. Anti-god botherrers   
   > simply deny it. It is not clear Rome was burned by christians, but they   
   > were well enough known to be blamed.   
      
   The first lines to read between, Mark's book, were written c. 70 CE,   
   about 6 yearrs after the fire.  So there was time for early apostles to   
   get together and get their story straight before they committted   
   anything to writing.  Their early converts didn't need a well developped   
   theology, they were just mysterrious strangerrs in the shadows.   
      
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