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   From: Archangel@nulldev.com   
      
   "Tom"  wrote in message   
   news:e_mdnXGBIb9zxefeRVn-qg@comcast.com...   
   >   
   > "igd"  wrote in message   
   > news:11ni3ccip6ht088@corp.supernews.com...   
   >>   
   >> He may be reffering to the passage in the gospels where JC is spending 40   
   >> days in the desert and "Old Nick" offers him the cities of the world,   
   >> Matthew 4, 1-11 for instance.  This business led at least some of the   
   >> Gnostics to consider "Satan" as a guise of the demi-urge who is "the Lord   
   >> of this world".   
   >   
   > I find it somewhat amusing when people think of this verse of scripture as   
   > proof of the devil's dominion over the earth.   
      
   Because it suits them just fine to do so.   
      
   A   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)