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Old 02-20-2013, 09:48 PM   #1
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In Killing Jesus, O'Reilly "will recount the seismic political and historical events" that made the death of the "beloved and controversial young revolutionary" known as Jesus of Nazareth inevitable.

“Jesus Christ has not walked among us physically for more than 2,000 years, yet his presence today is felt the world over and his spirit is worshipped by more than 2.2 billion people, O'Reilly said in a statement released by Holt. "His teachings, his legacy, his life as a flesh-and-blood man and his death created the world in which we live.” http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hea...killing-422929
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O'Reilly hasn't even been able to give an accurate historical account of his own life including where he was raised, what types of awards he's won or not won.

I just hope he finds some secret hidden teaching from jesus explaining to this dumb fucking lout how the tides work
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Old 02-21-2013, 05:12 AM   #3
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I just can't get behind anything he does. The early life of Jesus would be good. Seeing the things he built with his father would be interesting.
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About as learned and credible a source as getting the story right from Donald Duck himself.
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I saw the first part of Ben-Hur a few days ago.

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Neighbor: My table is not finished. Where is your son?
Joseph: He's walking in the hills.
Neighbor: [disapproving] Mm-hm. He neglects his work, Joseph.
Joseph: No. Once I reproached him with forgetting his work. He said to me, "I must be about my Father's business."
Neighbor: Then why isn't he here, working?
Joseph: [smiling] He's working.
Personally, even if it was God, I'm not sure I'd be that cool about it.

Anyway hope that makes it into the book.
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In Killing Jesus, O'Reilly "will recount the seismic political and historical events" that made the death of the "beloved and controversial young revolutionary" known as Jesus of Nazareth inevitable.

“Jesus Christ has not walked among us physically for more than 2,000 years, yet his presence today is felt the world over and his spirit is worshipped by more than 2.2 billion people, O'Reilly said in a statement released by Holt. "His teachings, his legacy, his life as a flesh-and-blood man and his death created the world in which we live.” http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hea...killing-422929
O'Reilly does not know what he is talking about. The Jesus cult was a Laughing stock in the 2nd century and were considered atheists and cannibals.
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In Killing Jesus, O'Reilly "will recount the seismic political and historical events" that made the death of the "beloved and controversial young revolutionary" known as Jesus of Nazareth inevitable.

“Jesus Christ has not walked among us physically for more than 2,000 years, yet his presence today is felt the world over and his spirit is worshipped by more than 2.2 billion people, O'Reilly said in a statement released by Holt. "His teachings, his legacy, his life as a flesh-and-blood man and his death created the world in which we live.” http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hea...killing-422929
Considering that BO is trying to make every dollar on the planet, and that Save Christmas is an annual event on Fox, I'm surprised he didn't come up with this sooner.
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In Killing Jesus, O'Reilly "will recount the seismic political and historical events" that made the death of the "beloved and controversial young revolutionary" known as Jesus of Nazareth inevitable.

“Jesus Christ has not walked among us physically for more than 2,000 years......
I wonder if O'Reilly will have read the Acts of John?

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Sometimes when I meant to touch him [Jesus], I met with a material and solid body;
but at other times when I felt him, his substance was immaterial and incorporeal,
as if it did not exist at all ...

And I often wished, as I walked with him, to see his footprint, whether it appeared on the ground
(for I saw him as it were raised up from the earth),
and I never saw it. (§ 93)
Hint. Hint.

Dear old Leucius Charinus.

Where would we be without him?
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From Schaff

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In the Gelasian decree on apocryphal books we read: "Libri omnes, quos fecit Leucius discipulus diaboli, apocryphi," where we have various readings, Lucianus and Seleucius (Thiel, Epp. Rom. Pont. 463). In the spurious correspondence between Jerome and Chromatius and Heliodorus, Jerome is represented as giving an orthodox version of certain authentic additions to St. Matthew's narrative, of which a heretical version had been given by Leucius (or, as it is printed, Seleucus), the author of the Acts already mentioned. In the letter of Innocent to Exsuperius (Mansi, iii. 1041) he condemns documents bearing the name of Matthew, of James the Less, of Peter and Paul written by Leucius, of Andrew written by Xenocharis and Leonidas the philosophers, and of Thomas. It has been conjectured that in Xenocharis an adjective has been joined with a proper name, and that we have here a corruption of Charinus. In the Latin version of the apocryphal Descensus Christi ad inferos (Tischendorf, Evan. Apoc. p. 369), two sons of the aged Simeon, named Leucius and Charinus, are represented as having died before our Lord, and as miraculously returning to bear witness to His triumphs in the under world. The writer clearly borrowed these names from the apocryphal Acts; did he there find warrant for regarding them as the names of distinct persons, or was Photius right in reporting both names to have been given to the same person?
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Salon.com details some prior discrepancies in O'Reilly's efforts.

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... As former Salon politics editor Jefferson Morley pointed out, O’Reilly fabricated a story in “Killing Kennedy,” saying he heard an associate of Lee Harvey Oswald commit suicide when, in fact, O’Reilly did not. And Justin Elliott has noted that O’Reilly’s Lincoln assassination account was so grossly inaccurate that the historic site, the Ford Theater, refused to sell the book on its premises “because of the lack of documentation and the factual errors within the publication.”...
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