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To: Asclepius

You took the words out of my mouth. The legend took root when Christians were desperate to find something to validate and legitimize their religion...The holy grail is on the order of
“relics’ such as a piece of John the baptists skull, a vial of Mother Mary’s breast milk, hairs from the ass Jesus rode, etc...


32 posted on 06/20/2007 4:58:54 PM PDT by Duffboy
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To: Duffboy
The legend took root when Christians were desperate to find something to validate and legitimize their religion...The holy grail is on the order of “relics’ such as a piece of John the baptists skull, a vial of Mother Mary’s breast milk, hairs from the ass Jesus rode, etc...

Uh, yeah. You forgot this one:



Oh, and btw, the fact that the immediate followers of Christ--the 11 remaining Apostles plus St. Paul, St. Barnabas, and many others--were willing to preach the Gospel of Jesus after his death and resurrection, even unto their own martyrdoms, is enough proof for me.

Acts of the Apostles 5:33-40
"When they [the council] had heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they thought to put them [the Apostles] to death. But one in the council rising up, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, respected by all the people, commanded the men to be put forth a little while. And he said to them: Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what you intend to do, as touching these men.

36 For before these days rose up Theodas, affirming himself to be somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all that believed him were scattered, and brought to nothing. After this man, rose up Judas of Galilee, in the days of the enrolling, and drew away the people after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as consented to him, were dispersed. And now, therefore, I say to you, refrain from these men, and let them alone; for if this council or this work be of men, it will come to nought; But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest perhaps you be found even to fight against God. And they consented to him. 40 And calling in the apostles, after they had scourged them, they charged them that they should not speak at all in the name of Jesus; and they dismissed them.

84 posted on 06/22/2007 7:29:24 AM PDT by Antoninus (P!ss off an environmentalist wacko . . . have more kids.)
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