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   From: leichtes@bellsouth.net   
      
   in article 484a0$425170ac$18d62363$7467@KNOLOGY.NET, Will Dockery at   
   ironywaves@knology.net wrote on 4/4/05 12:47 PM:   
      
   >   
   > "Stuart Leichter"  wrote   
   >> Will  Dockery wrote on 4/4/05 10:04 AM:   
   >> :   
   >>>>> 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.   
   >   
   > Believe it or not, it's a clear-cut piece of history.   
      
   Okay, Will. You sound exactly like the Holocaust deniers who also claim to   
   rely exclusively on "history".   
      
   It's now clear which side of the "history" fence you're on, Will.   
      
   >   
   > The Catholics have taked so much onto the Jesus myth over 2000 years that it   
   > *will* take me a while to nail it, even more so since I'm not connected with   
   > this group of murdering child molestors.   
   >   
   > If Jesus saw how his poetry has been corrupted, he'd puke.   
      
   You're not learned enough or educated enough to offer anything of value on   
   such matters; neither am I. But keep in mind that you're belittling an issue   
   called Faith or Belief. No proof is required for faith or belief, so stop   
   wasting bandwidth. It doesn't matter, but I'll stop opening your posts if   
   you persist in such waste because, like you, my Usenet ego concerns only me.   
      
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