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JonLP24

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30. I had more but my connection hit a wall
Sat Jun 6, 2015, 04:37 PM
Jun 2015

yellow triangle shows up when I have a post open too long plus I thought everything locked up but realized when I rebooted (twice) that it didn't lock up but the left click quit working when I hit it on the mouse keys (I had an issue before with it quitting on me)

This is the Wiki link on the Tacitus reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on_Christ

There were others, one in particular I was looking for but couldn't remember who or where as far as terms to search but remember a woman associated with monarchy or powerful family somewhere 100s AD

I also spare what else I posted plus I'm having copy and paste issues due to being limited to the mouse key for the left key but as far as the bible and a lot of the claims I find to be unreliable account of what actually took place considering there are historical events they got wrong or exaggerated so the Osiris stuff, virgin birth and a lot of the mythical stuff I don't buy. Scholars generally find the Book of Mark to be the most reliable because he wasn't a known insider like the Peter, Paul, or John that would be targets to make up stuff under his name but it has a "strange" ending. The main thing was he didn't make attempts to cover embarrassments. Especially the "Its not right to take food from the children toss it to the dogs" with children being the people of Israel and dogs gentiles where the woman replies "even dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs". I only read bits and pieces of the bible but from what I understand, under the context of everyone being very religious themselves, didn't include much of the divinity stuff but was the earliest accounts where the same accounts were later downplayed or whitewashed --- scholars find Revelations to be the most unreliable and if I remember correctly it almost wasn't added to the bible plus it is the latest one (with more of the incentive to make up stuff on their hero)

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There he goes again.. Marie Marie Jun 2015 #1
I still shake my head over John being passed up for The Daily Show host WhaTHellsgoingonhere Jun 2015 #22
253 recs and counting Electric Monk Jun 2015 #2
Nice. So most of us do! PatrickforO Jun 2015 #3
Christ was a Jew. former9thward Jun 2015 #4
As a fictitious character, he has the advantage of being whatever people want him to be. Warren DeMontague Jun 2015 #6
He was no more fictitious than you or I. former9thward Jun 2015 #8
You mean the widely discredited Josephus account, which is generally believed to have been Warren DeMontague Jun 2015 #10
LOL former9thward Jun 2015 #11
You said "Roman Historians", plural. Warren DeMontague Jun 2015 #14
Then I am sure you will point out how I am "wildly incorrect". former9thward Jun 2015 #15
No, they don't actually exist. Warren DeMontague Jun 2015 #16
You still haven't pointed out a single source former9thward Jun 2015 #17
Yes, it was a conspiracy. Warren DeMontague Jun 2015 #18
Where are Caesar's writings? former9thward Jun 2015 #23
oh ffs. Warren DeMontague Jun 2015 #24
A debate with you is truly a waste because of your intellectual dishonesty. former9thward Jun 2015 #25
No, I don't. But I'll tell you this- if someone were to put forth a convincing argument that Caesar Warren DeMontague Jun 2015 #26
There are more than 1 secular references to the crucifixion JonLP24 Jun 2015 #28
I'd be interested to see that- seriously. Warren DeMontague Jun 2015 #29
I had more but my connection hit a wall JonLP24 Jun 2015 #30
Yeah, but America wouldnt vote for Irving Berlin, either. Warren DeMontague Jun 2015 #5
Upon retweet, someone actually tweeted back at me PDittie Jun 2015 #7
a troika of Iranian clerics come to proclaim a Palestinian subversive ruler of all Jews? MisterP Jun 2015 #9
All through my parochial school years fadedrose Jun 2015 #12
or a Canadian "Latino" Electric Monk Jun 2015 #19
What a great comment UglyGreed Jun 2015 #13
I'm a big fan of John Fugelsang. He always nails it. Vinca Jun 2015 #20
LOL +1 B Calm Jun 2015 #21
K&R B Calm Jun 2015 #27
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