and Not Quite Allah!" next year. Of course, the Islamic faith will wonder
why all the Christians think it's so controversial since it comes from their
historical religious texts, so it must be true.
I'll be waiting for the Jewish release:
"Jesus, the Original Moonie!" A light hearted look on how those crazy
cults can pop-up overnight and really get the youth stirred up.
Marlon
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Ousterhout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 9:46 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: Final thoughts on Gibson
>
> Weren't these 4 gospels written well after Jesus' death? If so, then they
> are
> subject to the same revisionism that all text's written from people's
> memories
> are. The problem begins when people take any religious text as being
> "fact"
> as opposed to an individual's interpretation. Even of "God's word," it is
> still man's/woman's interpretation of what he thought God was saying to
> him/her. It seems to be a trade off of belief. All of the religions seem
> to
> "suffer" from this. To question is to not believe.
>
> Andy
> Actually, the pope did NOT say that. Read up and you'll see that the
> vadican
> denied such a statement. Add to this the fact that Gibson is NOT
> Catholic
> and you see a rumor/marketing ploy rather than truth.
> As for scholars, there are just as many who say the exact opposite.
>
>
>
>
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