Posted on 12/25/2011 5:02:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A few years back, the Harvard-educated Paul Mirecki, then head of the Religious Studies Department at Kansas University, proposed a new class.
His goal, as he told his cohorts in an atheist and agnostic chat room, was to give "fundies" -- i.e., orthodox Christians -- "a nice slap in their big fat face by teaching [intelligent design] as a religious studies class under the category 'mythology.'"
Mirecki did not expect any pushback from KU. "The majority of my colleagues here in the dept [sic] are agnostics or atheists, or they just don't care," wrote Mirecki. "If any of them are theists, it hasn't been obvious to me in the 15 years I've been here."
Unwittingly, Mirecki opened a window on the world of religious scholarship. At least since Darwin, cynics like Mirecki have been working to subvert Christianity under the guise of religious studies. The notorious, 150-scholar strong "Jesus Seminar" would seem to have no higher calling.
As the record will show, however, the subversives have not succeeded. The story of Jesus's birth, as well as his death, remains as rooted in the historical record as it was before these researchers began their unholy labors.
We know where Jesus was born, to whom, and more or less when. Were Jesus politically minded, it would not have been hard to establish his status as a citizen of Roman Judaea or to confirm it 2,000 years after his birth. (To be sure, the "natural born" part might prove a little tricky.)
No such luck with our president, Barack Obama. The most visible man in the world's most transparent society remains as much an enigma as he was four years ago.
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There's an app for that .
Excellent contrast.
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And exactly like Jesus’ birth, the vast majority of the public has decided that the myth and false story about His birth is more appealing than the documentation states. And similarly, they don’t really care to press the point to where they could find the truth. The truth doesn’t just doesn’t matter when the story sounds so good.
Jesus was not born on December 25. He was probably born on what was observed as the Feast of Trumpets in the fall of the year.
This is documented in the excellent Harmony of the Gospels by Fred Coulter.
Is that a photo of it? I didn’t know it was visible to the naked eye (yet?). I am interested in visible to the naked eye type coments.
This, however, was inaccurate on two counts. For one, up until January 2009, the Obama-friendly websites, including Snopes and Obama's own campaign website, had been listing Honolulu's Queens Hospital as the site of his birth. For another, the reporters who had been doing real research -- including at least one from the Boston Globe and another from the New York Times -- had failed to confirm any of the story.
Cashill won't let go. Merry Christmas!
bump to the thesis! and pshaw to that arrogant dope mentioned in the opening part.
Spring, not fall.
Hitchens really said that? He’s stupider than I’ve ever thought. I’ve read and read his most recommended stuff and it’s juvenile. That he’s a hero to the left and atheists simply baffles me (not really as they tend to go for callow puffery).
This President will have a “Library” of mythology, documents written by others, and entire swaths of missing documents. Even those with word only access, and lots of them. The largest room wil be filled with pix of vacations, golf clubs, videos of speeches and MO’s clothes. There will be an empty room of legal briefs and pleadings, Harvard, Occidental and other transcripts and papers, childhood pix and stories of trips with grandparents of both sides, pics and testimonials of classmates and neighbors, and childhood keepsakes.
There’s a German video of it somewhere. Saw it last night. Made me wonder.
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