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   From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
    Oh so rich & successful JTEM wrote:   
      
   > So, for me, the simplest explanation for the bible and the   
   > resulting religious traditions was that it was is response   
   > to Hellenism, a cultural rejection of foreigners and  foreign   
   > ways -- a popular attempt to rediscover their roots and   
   > their identity... even if the two didn't always belong together.   
      
   I no longer believe this. In fact, I don't know why I ever believed   
   it.   
      
   Okay, so maybe it's because it's along the lines of what I had   
   heard in the past. But...   
      
   I don't believe it.   
      
   Lies aren't random. If you look at all the "Mistakes," all the   
   "Oversights" and flat out lies you can tell what someone   
   is hiding. And, in this case it's Mt. Gerizim, the temple and   
   Samaria.   
      
   It's all hidden in plain sight!   
      
   David was king of Israel, right? And so wasn't Solomon. But   
   "Israel" was Samaria! To be king of Samaria was to be king   
   of Israel.   
      
   Right?   
      
   Northern kingdom = Israel (Samaria)   
      
   Southern kingdom = Judea   
      
   But the Samaritans were uppity people, now weren't they?   
   Always rebelling... well into the Byzantine era...   
      
   the Bible as we know it seems to originate in the 6th century.   
   Backdated, of course, and with Justinian Law forbidding any   
   conflicting texts it soon became the truth.   
      
   Yes, it all fits perfectly with the recent invention of Christ   
   theory. The empire created a figure that disapproved of   
   rebellion, that told the poor how lucky they were for being   
   poor and miserable and explained just how awful those   
   Jews were... AND it wrote Samaria and the Samaritans out   
   of the narrative.   
      
      
      
      
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