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   From: ironywaves@knology.net   
      
   "Stuart Leichter"  wrote   
   > Will Dockery  wrote on 4/4/05 12:47 PM:   
   > >> :   
   > >>>>> 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.   
      
   History's more than a "fence": history is a Wall.   
      
   > > 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.   
      
   Hey, man, you *nailed* it again: Faith, belief and Ego.   
      
   And Gods. And Kris Kristofferson.   
      
   --   
   "from Subterraneans" [Jack Kerouac]   
   http://www.kilbot.net/writing/subterraneans.php   
      
   "Charlie Parker" [Jack Kerouac]   
   http://www.kilbot.net/writing/charlieparker.php   
      
   "Some American Haikus" [Jack Kerouac]   
   http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~gallaher/k_speaks/kerouacspeaks.html   
      
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