09-28-2008, 07:04 PM
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Origen</b> (183-252) points out the sychronism [synchronism] EMPIRE-CHRISTIANISM [see: #6, 179; #8, 204-207; #10, 226-240; (Imperialism)].<b> The Empire is the God-willed preparation of Mankind to the Gospel</b> [see #6, 179].<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Previously colonialism, imperialism. Now globalisation.
Born-again catholic Tony Blair lectures Yale uni students on religion
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->But the focus on faith and globalisation as Yale's Howland Distinguished Fellow dovetails with the former Labour Party leader's long interest in religion and the work of his Tony Blair Faith Foundation.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Apparently <b>even the beard</b> they gave non-existent jesus had to be copied from elsewhere. This is just laughably sad. Christianism is just a very bad joke played on humanity.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->As a last word on this topic it may be mentioned that the custom prevailed among Epicureans of carrying about with them small images of their founder; they also had likenesses done in marble or painted on wooden panels to adorn their homes or lodgings. <b>His [Epicurus] features are well known to this day from surviving portrait busts and exhibit an [a bearded] expression singularly Christlike. In this connection it is remarkable that the beardless [see #9, 225] Christ so often seen on Christian sarcophagi down to the fourth century gave way to the bearded [see #24, 512] form which is now TRADITIONAL.</b> Since the two sects lived side by side for three [see 1534] centuries, it is by no means impossible that in this particular the practice of the one was a preparation for the practice of the other.' [31-32].<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The vocabulary of the New Testament exhibits numerous similarities to that of Epicurus [c. 341 - 271 B.C.E.]..." [33]. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
'Jesus the carpenter'?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->from: Dictionary of the New Testament, Xavier Léon-Dufour, Translated from the second (revised) French edition [1978] by Terrence Prendergast, Harper & Row, 1980, 129.
'CARPENTER A word which improperly translates the Gk. tekton (from which "architect" comes), because woodworkers were almost unknown in Palestine. In its broad sense, the Gk. referred to a worker or craftsman who worked on a pre-existing material, whether of wood, stone or even metal: a "tailor" of stone, a mason, a sculptor, etc.1 <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Origen</b> (183-252) points out the sychronism [synchronism] EMPIRE-CHRISTIANISM [see: #6, 179; #8, 204-207; #10, 226-240; (Imperialism)].<b> The Empire is the God-willed preparation of Mankind to the Gospel</b> [see #6, 179].<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Previously colonialism, imperialism. Now globalisation.
Born-again catholic Tony Blair lectures Yale uni students on religion
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->But the focus on faith and globalisation as Yale's Howland Distinguished Fellow dovetails with the former Labour Party leader's long interest in religion and the work of his Tony Blair Faith Foundation.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Apparently <b>even the beard</b> they gave non-existent jesus had to be copied from elsewhere. This is just laughably sad. Christianism is just a very bad joke played on humanity.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->As a last word on this topic it may be mentioned that the custom prevailed among Epicureans of carrying about with them small images of their founder; they also had likenesses done in marble or painted on wooden panels to adorn their homes or lodgings. <b>His [Epicurus] features are well known to this day from surviving portrait busts and exhibit an [a bearded] expression singularly Christlike. In this connection it is remarkable that the beardless [see #9, 225] Christ so often seen on Christian sarcophagi down to the fourth century gave way to the bearded [see #24, 512] form which is now TRADITIONAL.</b> Since the two sects lived side by side for three [see 1534] centuries, it is by no means impossible that in this particular the practice of the one was a preparation for the practice of the other.' [31-32].<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The vocabulary of the New Testament exhibits numerous similarities to that of Epicurus [c. 341 - 271 B.C.E.]..." [33]. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
'Jesus the carpenter'?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->from: Dictionary of the New Testament, Xavier Léon-Dufour, Translated from the second (revised) French edition [1978] by Terrence Prendergast, Harper & Row, 1980, 129.
'CARPENTER A word which improperly translates the Gk. tekton (from which "architect" comes), because woodworkers were almost unknown in Palestine. In its broad sense, the Gk. referred to a worker or craftsman who worked on a pre-existing material, whether of wood, stone or even metal: a "tailor" of stone, a mason, a sculptor, etc.1 <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->