Thomas_More
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Yes, but isn’t Paul himself a composite of sevwral anonymous people, and the letters too rewritten by different people.
The “heretical” Christian sects were the earliest. The Marcionites especially, who claimed “Paul” as their own. The Athanasians, who became the orthodox, were late on the scene, and moaned that they were outnumbered by the “heretics.”
Robert Price has written a book about the Paul fraud, called The Colossal Apostle, and two books exploding an historical Jesus.
Jack Common.
I am a snob.
And I like Lord Snooty and have all the cartoons.
Bijou, I am very sorry for a silly thing I posted and I hope Paula will remove it. I did not intend it to hurt you and I apologise to everyone here.
Paula, will you please remove the Peter Cook and Dudley More video link? My comment too. Thanks. The edit option has timed out.
” Hopefully a socialist society will banish your view of culture to the historical footnotes.”
So much for classical literature, love of books etc., then, when they are banished to the historical footnotes.
Without miracles, raising from the dead, healing the blind etc., there is no way a preacher preaching peace, forgiveness and forbearance would have appealed one jot to those suffering the most in Roman times any more than he would today.
In class society hate is paramount, and futile hatred is strongest among the poor.
Unlike the majority, who walk past the homeless, pretending they see no one, I stop and talk with several homeless people. I was also made to attend “jobclubs” as one of “the great unwashed” and unemployed. I noticed and notice that the people who are the poorest are the most militaristic, the most punitive, the most patriotic and the most conservative I have ever spoken with. Surely not all, but definitely those I have spoken with.
