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>> Some pagans did that. Most didn’t. The pagans best known to us for
the
>> practice were the Carthagenians.
>Not in my neighborhood. The best known, were the Moloch worshipers.
Same guys. They were ethnic Phoenicians, a colony.
>Evidently the same didn't apply to the charms of crucifixion which the
Romans got to like very well.
All cultures have a blind spot when it comes to their own customs. Even
we Americans suffer from the demonstrably false belief that we are the
good guys.
>Bad as all this smiting and rending asunder was, it was nothing
compared to the common cruelties of the period.
Actually, it was pretty normal for the era. The Israelites were neither
better nor worse than the Peoples around them.
>They had no choice. They didn't have an army.
Jews could have raised an army. They chose not to.
Then, in 1943, some of them changed their minds. They raised what is
arguably one of the best armies in history.
>Samson was a Nazirite too.
Robert Graves says the Samson story is a metaphor, one of a broad class
of similar solar myths. I’m not personally qualified to pass definitive
judgment one way or the other, but I like your version better.
>> Apparently. That’s certainly what Nag Hammadi points to.
>So?
It means that the New Testament version of the historical Jesus’ life
has been dramatically garbled. (Surprise!)
>I don't know. I would guess that anything found that relates to that
period
would be sensational and well covered.
If it disproves the basic tenets of a major world religion, people WILL
try to cover it up. Look at the Nag Hammadi documents themselves. It’s
been half a century and still we don’t know all they contained.
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