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Old 08-19-2007, 06:39 AM   #31
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Could we define clearly how people thought when writing the new testament?
Imperially inspired and
imperially sponsored:
render unto caesar
in the first instance.

Tax propaganda at the
heart and soul of the
holy fraud.

In the second instance
add some propaganda
for the new and strange
fourth century Roman
god.


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Old 08-19-2007, 07:13 AM   #32
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for the new and strange fourth century Roman god.
Independently of his name being "new", was there in essense something really new and strange about Christianity for the Romans? They were familar with sons of gods, incarnate gods, self-sacrificial gods. Christian ethics did not differ from that of many philosophers. Jupiter was already the "Deus Pater"...
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