[grey_whiskers]

Paul claims he was blined by a bright light and heard a voice. Stuff which now days usually gets you admitted to hospital, but I guess in the first century you could become a shaman and found a religion.

Nice cheap shot, but the difference is that before the bright light, etc., he had gone around dispossessing people of their homes and putting them to death: and AFTER the revelation became better behaved.

Kinda the opposite of those Moose-limb terrorists, BTW.

Cheers!

[dread78645]

Nice cheap shot,

Thanks.

but the difference is that before the bright light, etc., he had gone around dispossessing people of their homes and putting them to death: and AFTER the revelation became better behaved.

By modern Christian standards and what we read of him, probably so. But then the biblical sources of Paul's character is Paul himself, no bias there. ;-)
From the (then) Jewish standard, he went from being a devout upstanding lawman to an heretical apostate luring the faithful into a blasphemous cult of Jesus. Very bad behavior.

Kinda the opposite of those Moose-limb terrorists, BTW.

While I don't hold any love for the muslims, the history of Christianity from 313 to 1649 was hardly christian.
I only hope that it won't take 1,300 years and millions killed before Islam gets there.