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Old 03-14-2004, 08:17 PM   #11
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Default Albert Schweitzer ~ Xenophanes

(11) Homer and Hesiod have ascribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals, stealings and adulteries and deceivings of one another.

(14) But mortals deem that the gods are begotten as they are, and have clothes like theirs, and voice and form.

(15) Yes, and if oxen and horses or lions had hands, and could paint with their hands, and produce works of art as people do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and oxen like oxen, and make their bodies in the image of their several kinds.

(16) The Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed; the Thracians say theirs have blue eyes and red hair.

-- Xenophanes (source; was he the QueenofSwords of the day?)

So Albert Schweitzer was pointing out about the "historical Jesus" what Xenophanes had pointed out about the religions he had been familiar with.

And Xenophanes was also right about Nordic and black Jesuses.
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