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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (61302)	10/26/2014 2:16:59 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 69300

"The folk fables are great for the oppressed common man,slave populations perspective. There had been an evolutionary leaning towards some emergent religious construction that would be inclusive of the lower & middle classes, a humanist religion where all could aspire to their heavenly reward, already going on in Egypt for some centuries." Sheep have an abundance of needs. They are poor, they are sick--they are afflicted. Above all they need HOPE and a Shepherd to guide them through the darkness. Even today when most people have never seen a sheep, the need for guidance still exists. I wonder if Haggard or PoopOff are staging tonight... :-)

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (61302)	10/26/2014 7:48:26 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

I don't believe in Jesus as a philosopher/idealist. we all know that true peace comes from within & all the other nice Hellenist philosophical wisdoms which the proto-Jewish sect adopts & emulates. Christian beliefs are not based on Hellenist philosophy. It never dawns on you that the greatest bulk of early Christians are all 99% Hellenized Jews? Sorry, but I pointed that out to you. Of course, now that you know, you imagine it means something other than they were Greek speakers. one finds the Jewsih/Chrstians emerge mainly because of that Hellenist Stoic & Neo-Platonist philosophy from which they imitated & borrowed heavily Christianity was not based on Stoicism or Neoplatonism. Christians did sometimes borrow Stoic terminology in spreading the faith. Neoplatonism was post-Christian.