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   XPost: alt.magick   
   From: Aunty_Kreist@satanickittens.net   
      
   "Dale Houstman"  wrote in message   
   news:422633E5.8060109@skypoint.com...   
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   > Karla wrote:   
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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.   
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   > 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.   
      
   The Dead Sea Scrolls. The buy-bull only details the events surrounding   
   Christ's birth, and his 33rd year. The Dead Sea Scrolls tell some of what   
   happened in between those years.   
      
      
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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?   
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   > 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.   
      
   Actually, Hitler was under the influence of the evil wizard Grindlewald,   
   until Professor Albus Dumbledore defeated him.   
      
   The rest were friends of Voldemort.   
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   > dmh   
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