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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: What did Judas betray?
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 15:22:07 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <721862719.AA09766@csource.oz.au> <1992Nov15.192607.19517@netcom.com>,<1992Nov16.234856.20114@imagen.com>
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- In article <1992Nov16.234856.20114@imagen.com>, avi@seal.imagen.com writes:
- = MANY DIFFERENT yeshuas. Why ? because:
- =
- = 1) Yeshua is reasonably common jewish name for that era. Remember, there was
- = a High Priest (Cohen Gadol) name Yeshua, and another man named
- = Yeshua and Prachiah.
- = 2) MANY jews were executed daily, many with no appraent reason but the will
- = of the Romans to just crush the moral, and secure the people subdued.
- = Now purely from a statistical standpoint, there would be MORE (many more)
- = than one Yeshuas in the crowd, just like there would be more than one Jim
- = or John in any regular crowd on any City street (in the U.S.)
- = 3) On the Eve of Passover, a celebration of FREEDOM from OPPRESSION and SLAVERY,
- = the Romans would especially ACCELERATE and INCREASE the crucifixion ratio
- = as they wanted to break the people, spiritually and emotionally and what
- = better time to do that than on a HAPPY Holiday, when people might have
- = thoughts of doing to the Romans, what their ancestors, led by Moses, did to
- = the Egyptians...
-
- Hmmm. For his statistics to make much sense, Pilate must've made Hitler look
- like a piker.
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- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
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