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participate at this time. Someone please provide info as how to do it!
Thank You! :-)
Christine Kovach
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Sent: Sunday, May 31, 1998 11:23 PM
To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT
Subject: Re: Anti-abortion group to protest gay fest at
Disney
At 12:49 PM 5/31/98 +0100, Sarah. J. wrote:
>I am angry at what St. paul did to try and popularise the
Christian
>movement, by making the gays a common enemy, to group together.
>Christians didn't need to oppress other religions, like is
still
>going on today (Leading to Disney's negative portrayal of
Paganism
>etc in it's films, which fixate the same attitudes in the
young) As
>far as i know, Christianity was ok before St. Paul.
I'm finding this conversation interesting, and coulnd't resist
delurking
here for a moment....there wasn't any Christianity before St.
Paul.....Christ was, from internally evidence provided by the
scriptures, a
practicing Jew, as were his disciples...they consituted a "sect"
in Judaism,
which was, at that time, quite fractured and practiced many
different ways.
Christ was crucified sometimes between 20AD and 33 AD and Paul's
letter's
began about 50AD. Because he was not part of the Jerusalem sect
of Christ's
followers (and Christ's brother James may have been a high
priest in the
temple, see Robert Eisenman)...he went out of Israel to bring
others into
the "fold" as it were....a great deal of what Christians believe
and
practice was shaped by Paul *and* by Greco-Roman beliefs
prevelant at the time.
Christians really practice "paulism" rather than a form of
Judaism -- so
blame it all on St. Paul.
Actually, homosexuality was still practiced -- and honoured --
among the
Greeks at the time of Christ.....go figure how it all got so
mixed up.
thanks all for your contributions to this thread.
Maureen
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 1 12:28:13 1998
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Subject: First black U.S. woman poet's work fetches $68,500
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:35:17 -0500
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First black U.S. woman poet's work fetches $68,500
A rare manuscript by the U.S.' first black woman poet - a former =
Senegalese slave named Phillis Wheatley - was sold for $68,500 at a =
Christie's auction Friday. "Ocean," an ode to the sea, was written in =
1773 in Boston, where Wheatley served from childhood as the personal =
servant of Mrs. John Wheatley, the wife of a wealthy tailor. The only =
known copy of the 70-line poem - a creased and yellowing three-page =
manuscript - fetched significantly more than its estimate of $18,000 to =
$25,000, Christie's spokeswoman Vredy Lytsman said. She said a local =
book dealer had bought it. Wheatley, known as the first black woman poet =
in the U.S., began writing poetry at the age of 14 under the tutelage of =
her owners, who broke with convention by educating her in literature, =
Latin and philosophy. See =
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