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Old 09-14-2003, 04:16 PM   #131
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In general, I've decided not to follow on this particular angle in my subsequent work, because this stuff isn't easy for the general reader to understand. More recently, I prefer to deal with the stuff that's easy for a non-specialist to follow, because the biblical specialists are such crooks, racists and all around zombies that I'd only be wasting my time with them. They are just not interested in anything outside of their Egyptian Greek text, their beloved. They are programmed!!
What about the Byzantine zombies? And the Peshitta zombies? And all the other zombies? Maybe you are a zombie?!? It's a regular night of the living dead in TC-land.

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Old 09-16-2003, 01:35 PM   #132
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What about the Byzantine zombies? And the Peshitta zombies? And all the other zombies? Maybe you are a zombie?!? It's a regular night of the living dead in TC-land.

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Well, Peter, I wouldn't necessarily describe Byzantine prioritists as zombies. For one thing, there are actually very few of them. (OTOH, the KJV-only crowd, that's a different matter, perhaps, because they are mostly faith-based.)

M.A. Robinson, for example, the leading Byzantine prioritist, was once an Egyptian text regular, but then he changed his mind. So this is the opposite of a zombie, since at least he's got his own mind!

As to the Peshitta crowd, most of them seem to be faith-based, it's true, but they also seem to have a faith in something that's far superior to the Egyptian text. And since they are also a tiny minority, it takes some courage to be in the minority.

But being an Egyptian zombie doesn't take any brains at all, or courage. All you have to do is repeat the party line!

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