OK, I have four tickets for the 7:30 show for Wednesday. My husband is devout Lutheran, I am a so-so Catholic, both read the Gospels often, as I've described, the Lattimore version. I'll be on the lookout for bad craziness.
On a sour note, Joe Sobran - whom I ordinarily like - is passing on some pretty moronic stuff about the Talmud and Jesus which I won't repeat here but will give the link.
sobran.com
I got into this issue with Thomas M. (PLO supporter) on SI a while back, pre 9/11, I think that summer. I bookmarked a lot of links but that computer is sitting on the floor of my bedroom, and trying to find refutation without firing it back up unfortunately requires passing through the slime belt - stormfront.org, davidduke.com - but I managed to find one voice of sanity. LindyBill runs a tight ship so I hope this will be enough - it ought to be a very obscure point but if Sobran is passing it off as true, that is worrisome. I think he may be Catholic, so am surprised that he passes this stuff on without questioning it.
talmud.faithweb.com
At any rate, I did bookmark some very scholarly articles on the websites of prestigious universities, written by scholars who can read Hebrew and know the history of the time, and am satisfied that the allegations are baseless, and this event counts as an example of bad craziness. As does Hutton Gibson's recent pronouncements on the Holocaust.
OT - the barbecue place was full so we had Szechuan at China Star. The Lake Windless prawns were superb, the Tsiangdo crisp and cold. I love globalization! |
