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   From: witkowski@shared-secrets.com   
      
   Douglas Berry wrote:   
   > What's so funny about peace, love and Tau'ri    
   > posting the following on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 20:45:11 -0400 iin   
   > alt.atheism?   
   >   
   >>Douglas Berry wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>What's so funny about peace, love and geister@mailinator.com posting   
   >>>the following on 2 Oct 2005 13:29:00 -0700 iin alt.atheism?   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>You just have to hate it when history proves atheism wrong.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Lost island home of Odysseus found after 3,000 years   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>This provesd what, exactly?  We knew the Illiad isn't fictional.   
   >>>After all, we found Troy a long time ago.   
   >>   
   >>And the Bible is fictional? What an Oxymoronic statement.   
   >   
   >   
   > Large portions of it are.  Take the Exodus.   
   > Never happened.  Complete   
   > myth.  How do we know?   
      
      
   Now if you can tell this to the jews, and modern day Israelites, the   
   fighting would be over in palastine.   
      
      
   > The Egyptians left extensive records of their   
   > affairs, and nowhere is anything like the events portrayed in Exodus   
   > recounted.  No army of slaves escaping in the night (in fact, Egypt   
   > kept very few slaves.)   
      
   You forget ancient socisties had a tendency to hide their defeats.   
      
      
   >   
   > There are large bits of the New Testament as well that are clearly   
   > bogus.  Herod's slaughtering all the male children under two, for   
   > example.  The Romans would have killed him for that, assuming the   
   > inevitable uprising by an outraged Judea didn't do the job first!  And   
   > if it had happened, don't you think a Roman historian would have   
   > mentioned it?   
   >   
      
   Romans did not interfere with local goverment unless, the local   
   goverment went against Caesar.   
      
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