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From: gnewman@iglou.com (Greg 'Bonz' Newman)
Subject: Re: Noah & other bible myths
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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 01:39:18 GMT
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On 19 Jul 1996 21:10:17 GMT, jking@alnitak.xylogics.com (Jack
King) wrote:

>Greg 'Bonz' Newman (gnewman@iglou.com) wrote:

>: >Let me see if I've got this straight.  Jesus Christ (whether you
>: >believe he was God, the Son of God, or just a man) who has had more
>: >influence on more people over the longest period of time than any other
>: >man or woman that evry walked the earth is --- a myth???!

>: Sure. Why not? And I disagree with your characterization of
>: Jesus. I think Pasteur, for instance, or Jennings, have had as
>: much if not more influence than Jesus. Ditto ananymous who
>: invented 'zero', the people who discovered writing, and
>: agriculture.

>This really sounds hopeless, but let me give it one more shot.   
>The Roman historian Tacitus, who was no friend of Christianity,
>writing around 100 CE, tells of Nero's cruel persecution of the
>Christians and adds:

>       "Christus, the founder of the name, had undergone the
>   death penalty in the reign of Tiberius, by sentence of the
>   procurator Pontius Pilatus, and the pernicious superstition
>   was checked for a moment, only to break out once more, not
>   merely in Judea, the home of the disease, but the capital
>   [Rome] itself."  _The Annals, by Tacitus_, Book XV, p. 283

 And your point is? <truly puzzled>

 Are all Christians as weird as you are?  What are you trying to
get across by this quote?





