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Garrette
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Posted - 04/24/2002 :  05:22:10  Show Profile  Send Garrette a Yahoo! Message Send Garrette a Private Message
Check out the letters to the editor in the latest issue of Skeptic Magazine.

Slater brings up his points about the fabrication of the NT and how it was overlooked in a previous article. The article's author responds. (I may be misstating the letter's contents; I read it a while ago and don't have it in front of me now).

Slater: if you have it on your computer, could you perhaps post it here?

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Sidebar: The local Barnes & Noble bookstore does not normally carry Skeptic Magazine. They had this issue in the New Age/Environmentalist section because the cover mentions Environmentalism (the centerpiece of the issue is a debate of Lomborg's book about alleged environmentalist lies and exaggerations).

I haven't spoken to anyone at the store yet, but still may.


My kids still love me.

Slater
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Posted - 04/24/2002 :  12:12:19   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Slater a Private Message
Actually I didn't go into the fabrication of Christianity. Tim Callahan had written an article called "The Triumph of Christianity," in which he presented Christianity as being on a level playing field with competing religions in Rome. His point was that Christianity was more popular due to its inclusiveness and all around niceness. It won out because the Romans knew a good thing when they saw it.
The point I made was straight out of Gibbons "Decline and Fall"
People converted to Christianity because they didn't want to be put to death.
His reply to my comments seemed more than a little incoherent to me. He didn't want to deal with the Imperial political aspects of Christianity at all.

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It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehood for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment.
----Eusebius of Nicomedia,
The Preparation of the Gospel
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