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- From: joeb@arden.linet.org (Joe Beiter)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: The Bible As A Rorschach
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.012013.23213@arden.linet.org>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 01:20:13 GMT
- References: <9211241258.AA21354@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com> <1992Dec28.230529.19778@arden.linet.org> <MRMIKE.92Dec29110050@michelotti.ae.ge.com>
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- In article <MRMIKE.92Dec29110050@michelotti.ae.ge.com> Mike Passaretti <passaretti@crd.ge.com> writes:
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- >joe> and then proceed to be crucified, boiled in oil, stoned,
- >joe> sawn in half etc... knowing full well the lie they were
- >joe> dying for. The fact is, they either witnessed the
- >joe> fullfilling of these prophecies and deemed it worth dying
- >joe> for or they fudged and knew the real truth.
- >
- >
- >Actually, if my memory does not fail me, John die of natural
- >causes. People have died for many ideas. This does not make
- >thos ideas just, right, or correct, only capable of creating
- >such strong devotion in their followers that they will die for
- >them. People have died to give power to lies before too.
- >People are strange that way.
-
- Yes John was put into a cauldron of boiling oil but was not killed. He was
- then banished to the Isle of Patmos. All for not shutting his trap about
- Jesus. The rest were martyred. Whatever they believed they REALLY believed
- it.
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