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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (78554)	11/2/2003 6:39:39 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

This is a great book- The History of the Siege of Lisbon. I think I've read all of Saramago, and I've really enjoyed his books.

To: Lane3 who wrote (78554)	11/2/2003 8:42:02 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 82486

Ah, but did they leave anything on the cutting room floor that would convince me? Not likely. Clarke's Law says "Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." The corolary is that if you can distinguish it from magic, it is not sufficiently advanced. Gods do magic. If you think you are dealing with a God, how do you know it's not really some advanced space alien playing with your head? Raise Lazarus? No problem if you have the technology. Have Jesus reappear after 3 days? No sweat. If you meet Buddha on the road to enlightenment, kill him.

To: Lane3 who wrote (78554)	11/3/2003 12:18:54 AM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

To those who have even casually looked, there is nothing remotely new or startling about the fact that early Christianity was all over the map. After all, they had nothing to guide them -- the Bible wasn't put together until, pick your own date, but sometime in the second or third century. But as is usual, the winners wrote history, and they have tried to surpress the concepts which have become heresies because they lost out. If you actually go back to the life of Christ, as best we know it, and try to fashion with integrity and from scrach a religion based on what we believe he actually taught and did, you get somethign that has almost nothing in common with contemporary Christianity.