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   On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 21:10:35 -0500, Mitchell Holman  wrote:   
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   >mur@.not. wrote in news:50ch2a5fhg6991v9hg0pmnqug42l0lt61h@4ax.com:   
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   >>     What sort of money and power do you think rewarded the first   
   >>     people who   
   >> promoted Christianity?   
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   >      Lots. Being a religious leader is a guaranteed   
   >way of getting working people to support you so you   
   >do not have to work yourself. Jesus didn't have to   
   >work, neither did Paul or John or any of the cult   
   >leaders. Even today we have James Hagee and Benny Hinn   
   >and Joel Osteen and Pat Robertson, all living off   
   >money working people sent them.   
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   > "If you want to get rich, you start a religion."   
   >L Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology   
      
       So a guy had disciples following him around lying for him that he was   
   performing miracles, and somehow the lies got them fed and housed even though   
   no   
   one ever saw any miracles, then the guy was at some point crucified for what he   
   had been telling people. Killed by the government for it. So after that his   
   disciples keep going around repeating the lies that got Jesus killed plus   
   making   
   up another lie about him being resurrected. And instead of being exposed as the   
   liars you're claiming they were, and instead of getting killed for pretty much   
   the same thing Jesus did, they got rich and never had to work again. It might   
   make for an amusing movie, but I certainly can't put any faith in that being   
   the   
   way it actually went down. Just describing what you're imagining is funny, but   
   in a really low level clueless sort of way.   
      
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