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11-27-2009, 12:48 PM | #11 |
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11-27-2009, 01:54 PM | #12 |
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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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11-27-2009, 02:24 PM | #13 |
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Why would a Scot care if Jesus came to England?
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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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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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11-28-2009, 04:45 AM | #18 |
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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...
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Silliness
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