XPost: alt.abortion, alt.abortion.inequity, alt.atheism   
   XPost: alt.support.abortion, talk.abortion   
   From: prochoice@here.now   
      
   On 24 May 2004 20:44:52 -0700, rbwinn47@mybluelight.com (Robert B.   
   Winn) in alt.abortion with message-id   
   <7943568.0405241944.7394bd8d@posting.google.com> wrote:   
      
      
   >> >>>   
   >> >>>>>>   
   >> >>>>>> OK.   
   >> >>>>>   
   >> >>>>> Where is your evidence?   
   >> >>>>   
   >> >>>> Well, we do have the empty tomb.   
   >> >>>> Robert B. Winn   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>> Oh?  Exactly where is it?  Can it be visited today?   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>> BTW, there are a lot of empty tombs.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Most all of the tombs in that area were empty when discovered.   
   >> >> Those tombs were only used until the body decomposed enough to   
   >> >> separate the flesh from the bone, the bones were put into Osuarys   
   >> >> (small, usually stone, boxes about 36" in length, 12" wide, and 12"   
   >> >> tall.)   They were then placed in a family plot.   The caves were   
   >> >> subsequently reused, or sold.  The alleged tomb of Christ was one of   
   >> >> several caves in the area that belonged to a wealthy man who offered   
   >> >> its use.   This particular cave has never been conclusively proven   
   >> >> to be the one Christ was entombed in, but it makes for a really good   
   >> >> tourist attraction.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Of course, then there is the ever popular "Shroud of Turin" that was   
   >> >> accurately dated to the 14th century by both religious and   
   >> >> non-religious scientists.   OOps!   
   >> >   
   >> > The entire subject of religion in all it's myriad forms is rife with   
   >> > fakes, falsifications, and scams.  In fact, that is the norm.   
   >>   
   >> True.  The people that have the most to gain by promoting the religion are   
   >> also the ones that write/rewrite/translate the religious text.   It would be   
   >> like giving one person the job of taking in the receipts, and accounting for   
   >> the receipts.   
   >>   
   >> You're bound to get inaccuracies.  :o)   
   >   
   >Well, people who are so dishonest as to be killing little children   
   >just because they do not want them are bound to have trouble   
   >understanding religion.   
      
   Few are killing children because they do not want them and it is   
   certainly not done on a large scale.  It is illegal.  Such an act of   
   course has nothing to do with religion or understanding it.   
      
      
   >According to James   
      
   Please prove any such person ever existed and prove anything he said   
   has any basis in fact.   
      
   > true religion and   
   >undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the widow and   
   >the fatherless in their affliction and to keep yourselves unspotted   
   >from the world.   
      
   Whatever that may mean.   
      
   >Robert B. Winn   
      
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