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To: Catholic Examiner
He was a real man, a bishop (circa 343 AD),

Was he one of the bishops who called people "heretics" and burnt them at the stake simply for wanting to read The Bible?

3 posted on 12/06/2010 8:00:44 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

They’ll give anyone a keyboard these days, eh?


6 posted on 12/06/2010 8:07:13 AM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Texas Eagle
Was he one of the bishops who called people "heretics" and burnt them at the stake simply for wanting to read The Bible?
It is disputed whether he slapped him on the mouth, fed him a knuckle-sandwich, or boxed him on the ear, but one thing seems clear: Santa Claus most likely hit the heretic, Arius of Alexandria, during the Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D.
-- from the thread “Is Man to Become God?” [St. Athanasius]
See also The Historical St. Nick: Santa Claus Punched Me in the Face
7 posted on 12/06/2010 8:15:38 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("Posting news feeds, making eyes bleed, he's hated on seven continents")
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To: Texas Eagle

Bet you didn’t find any chocolate coins in your shoes this morning. :(


8 posted on 12/06/2010 8:29:45 AM PST by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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