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skepticscott

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7. No, it comes down to promoting a religious agenda

Reply to okasha (Reply #6)

Sat Apr 26, 2014, 03:37 PM

Apr 2014

and whether the alleged authenticity of a piece weighs for or against a particular agenda. That's what both sides in all of these fights are really concerned with.

If the fragment had Jesus saying "My friends.." Or "My lunch...", there wouldn't be a controversy beyond very narrow scholarly circles, and even then, not much of one.

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