XPost: alt.religion.wicca, alt.arts.poetry.comments, alt.writing   
   XPost: alt.magick   
   From: dmh7@skypoint.com   
      
   Karla wrote:   
      
   >>P   
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   > I agree that Jesus, using the Word, heals(ed) bodies, souls and minds, gave,   
   > and still gives purpose to lives, and stands ready to do the same today.   
   > Several witnesses wrote down accountings of these magic moments.  The   
   > accountings have been reprinted for hundreds of years.   
      
   Actually, quite untrue. There are NO written accounts by any witness to   
   these supposed miracles, and the earliest accounts even of Jesus as a   
   person come long after his supposed death. It is strange in fact how   
   there is nothing written AT ALL about this supposedly startling being   
   during his lifetime. No Roman mentions him, no Greek, and nothing else   
   until the spurious mention of him quite a while after by Josephus.   
   There's been more written about Dracula and Santa Calus. And "Jesus"   
   doesn't give meaning to lives, the "idea" of Jesus sometimes does, but   
   the blood that's been spilled in his Name seems to have rather equalled   
   the score Good/Evil wise.   
      
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   > Also, zealots, perverting such Words have begun wars, eradicated millions of   
   > people and caused the extinction of many life forms.  You don't consider that   
   > the work of a magician and his apprentices?   
      
   If slaughter were proof of magic, then Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and   
   quite a number of U.S. Presidents (not to mention Charles Manson) must   
   secretly own pointed hats, starry robes, and magic wands.   
      
   dmh   
      
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