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   From: leichtes@bellsouth.net   
      
   in article 1112623471.409827.197400@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, Will   
   Dockery at shamankickboxer@hotmail.com wrote on 4/4/05 10:04 AM:   
      
   >   
   > Stuart Leichter wrote:   
   >>> Many Gods were switched over to Saints to lure more into the church   
   >>> with less difficulties.   
   >>   
   >> That's Millennium-Monday quarterbacking. The same hind-end sight is   
   > used to   
   >> explain porkeating and foreskins among the Gentiles embracing the   
   > early   
   >> Church.   
   >>   
   >> Anyone who tries to peer that far into the past when there wasn't   
   > Google   
   >> will come up wrong. But it's a free country and you can believe   
   > anything you   
   >> want and say so.   
   >   
   > Well I could toss the Saint thing onto the backburner and go back to   
   > the Mithras/Balder/Osiris et al myths that were tacked on to the Jesus   
   > myth, and then the Saints come marching in, all the other pals from the   
   > pantheons.   
   >   
   > It'll take a minute, but I'll nail this one.   
   >   
      
   You'll come up wrong. Everyone comes up wrong. The butcher, baker, and   
   candlestick maker might believe you, but I won't.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)