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Old 11-27-2009, 12:48 PM   #11
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I wonder if this explains all the fuckin' totties he signed for us. Seeing messiahs everywhere.

There was only one true messiah in Britain and he was known as Henrik (PBUH).
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Was this before or after he had tea and crumpets on golden plates with the Clovis peoples in upstate New York?
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Why would a Scot care if Jesus came to England?
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Why would a Scot care if Jesus came to England?
Maybe he wants to test if the sassanack are stupid enough to believe it.

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Old 11-27-2009, 03:27 PM   #15
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Maybe he wants to test if the sassanack are stupid enough to believe it.
I learned a new word today! (I guess I'd better be careful where I use it, though).
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It's strange how no early Xian literature mentions this connection. None of the canonical literature, none of the noncanonical gospels, none of the early Church Fathers' writings, ...

You'd expect JC to mention his favorite Druids or his favorite gymnosophists ("naked philosophers" of India) or whoever.
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Maybe he wants to test if the sassanack are stupid enough to believe it.
I learned a new word today! (I guess I'd better be careful where I use it, though).
AFAIK, sassenach originally referred to us sissy lowland Scots. We just hijacked it to deflect highland scorn onto our southern neighbours.
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This sounds to me like one of those stories they make up when a TV show or comic book has been running too long and they start randomly rewriting the characters' backstories for no particular reason. Like when Chandler and Monica started having a crush on each other in university or Superman and Lex Luthor grew up together and such crap.
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Jesus plausibly could have been the inventor of the Sandwich as well....and maybe he spoke Chinese! I'll bet there are at least 5 other things Jesus might have done...


Good grief. Is this what passes for academia these days?
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