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- From: alizard@pil
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Why the Cross?
- Message-ID: <gate.27smwB1w165w@pil.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 00:31:24 PST
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- Re: Re: Why the Cross?
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- > From: drake+@cs.cmu.edu (Drake)
- > Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- > Subject: Re: Why the Cross?
- > Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:19:35 GMT
- > It may also be that their Christ was not, in fact, crucified. He may
- > have been executed as the Law suggests - by stoning, and then hung on
- > a tree. (The cross is a "tree" only in the imagination of some
- > Christian writers.) Paul and certain evangelists could have used
- > the image of Christ dying on the cross to convert some of the Romans,
- > Or, in the earlier days, it may have been adopted to gain acceptance
- > among the Roman underclass.
-
- If my memory is correct, the cross was only used for ONE class of crime:
- Crimes Against the Roman Empire... e.g. treason. The only way that people
- in an underclass could be persuaded to identify with treason would be in the
- case of SERIOUS disaffection. (workable in Judea, but in other places in
- the Empire?) Disaffection so serious that people could openly advocate treason
- without the slightest worry about people reporting their statements to the
- authorities.
- Blessings
- A.Lizard
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