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To: jbe who wrote (34484)	4/12/1999 1:29:00 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Some people do take pleasure in the persisting ambiguities arising from conflicts in the fictions that make up the Holy Bible. Myself, I'm all in favor of research that will get us as close to the historical truth as possible. A powerful scholarly consensus is converging on the uncomfortable recognition of the historical Jesus as an eschatologically deluded charismatic agitator operating wholly within the Jewish worldview of his period. The existing documents allow fanciful constructions other than that one, (ie, he was a social revolutionary, he was a wise man with some excellent ideas about how to live, he was a conjurer and trickster,) but to me the consensus to which I refer is convincing. N.

To: jbe who wrote (34484)	4/12/1999 3:13:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

And we need contradictions, too. Was it Keats who said that the mark of an intelligent mind was the ability to entertain two contradictory ideas simultaneously? Somebody said it, anyway. That's for sure. It was F. Scott Fitzgerald, in the Crack-Up. He added the proviso "and still retain the ability to function." Thus the whole thing is so: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."