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To: CzarNicky
Actually, a lot of them didn't feel that way, hence the positive reaction to St. Paul's speech on the Areopagus.
16 posted on 02/20/2008 3:42:29 PM PST by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: AnAmericanMother

Areopagus — usually translated as “Mars Hill” although “Mars Heath” would be a better translation.
(Germanic-derived “heathen” = Greco/Roman-derived “pagan”)


17 posted on 02/20/2008 3:52:42 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: AnAmericanMother
Actually, a lot of them didn't feel that way, hence the positive reaction to St. Paul's speech on the Areopagus.

And now their descendants are finding a new way.

30 posted on 02/21/2008 12:18:02 AM PST by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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