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- From: George Paap <george_paap@email.sps.mot.com>
- Subject: Re: Why the Cross?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.042017.12923@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:20:17 GMT
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- In article <30DEC199213204214@jane.uh.edu> Tammy Stark Blandino,
- lib1p@jane.uh.edu writes:
- >Go back and study the time period from about, oh, 50 BC to about 300 AD.
- >After you do that then go and read the bible, placing the words in
- context
- >to the time period. A whole new picture will arise in your mind.
-
- I found Bertrand Russell's History of Western
- Philosophy to have a very comprehensive
- account of the philosophical and theological
- development of the christian (Roman) church (as well
- as stuff on all the Greek & Roman philosophies etc).
- Its a bit patriarchal but it shattered my belief
- in christianity (after Z.B.'s "Holy Book of
- Womans Mysteries" and "The Once and Future Goddess"
- [forgot the author] caused me to begin to really question
- my beliefs). An that was without reading past about
- 1200 AD or so.
-
- Joy and Mirth,
- George
-
- I am my beliefs.
- (which almost certainly are not those of my employer)
-