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Old 08-20-2007, 07:41 PM   #1
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Not exactly on-topic, but I once (during the Nixon administration) saw

MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN

spraypainted on one of the big stone pillars at the corners of the White House grounds.

Edit: Actually, it was probably just MENE MENE; oh well, it's the thought that counts.
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Old 08-21-2007, 04:04 AM   #2
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You might want to quote the opening two
paragraphs of Emperor Julian against the
(new and strange) christian religion of the
fourth century (when, IMO, it was invented):
It is, I think, expedient to set forth to all mankind
the reasons by which I was convinced that

the fabrication of the Galilaeans
is a fiction of men
composed by wickedness.


Though it has in it nothing divine,
by making full use of that part of the soul
which loves fable and is childish and foolish,
it has induced men to believe
that the monstrous tale is truth.


--- Emperor (360-363 CE) Flavius Claudius Julianus
"Against the Galileans" remains of the 3 books,
excerpted from Cyril of Alexandria,
Contra Julianum (1923)"
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Old 08-21-2007, 04:13 AM   #3
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If it was alright for God to write on rocks, it's probably alright for Christians to do so.
Since somewhere you must hold a belief akin to the
hypothesis that God wrote on rocks, would you mind
providing one of your usual academic citations, in this
instance to the epigraphy, Roger Pearce.

Which rock shows the evidence of divine epigraphy?
Which museum is it located in? How much did they
pay for it? Who did they get it from? Oded?
And more, what language was it written in?
And finally, what was the message?

Thanks in advance Roger.
And best wishes,


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