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Malachi151 · 11-20-2006, 08:00 AM

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Why in a story about the salvation of mankind, of bringing together and making a new heaven and earth, is there an assumption of any historicity at all?

Because of tradition. Because Catholic doctrine, which ruled Western Civilization for over 1,000 years, is fundamentally dependent on a real live flesh and blood Jesus, who shed physical blood to complete a sacrifice to his Father/self....

Clivedurdle · 11-20-2006, 08:43 AM

It looks to me as if there is more evidence of the existence of Merlin than of Jesus. The story of someone going mad after a battle sounds real. There might be two Merlins, the other a precocious child helping to build a castle.

But both Merlin and Jesus have the wondrous child myth about them.

Jesus is the child of an incubus, albeit in this case the chief one - God's spirit.

There seems to be no reason at all that Jesus might be a composite of different people, but the myth is the start and it was expanded by Jesus was like so and so.

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11-20-2006, 08:43 AM	#12
Clivedurdle Contributor Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: London UK Posts: 16,024	It looks to me as if there is more evidence of the existence of Merlin than of Jesus. The story of someone going mad after a battle sounds real. There might be two Merlins, the other a precocious child helping to build a castle. But both Merlin and Jesus have the wondrous child myth about them. Jesus is the child of an incubus, albeit in this case the chief one - God's spirit. There seems to be no reason at all that Jesus might be a composite of different people, but the myth is the start and it was expanded by Jesus was like so and so.

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