quote:Originally posted by Timo: For all practical purposes, Jesus in today's terms was a Palestinian... These people were probably just as multi-ethnic back then as they are today.
Culturally yeah. Geneticly, no way. Finf the oldest families in the most isolated parts of the middle-east and you'll see men that might have looked like Jesus.
If Jesus came back today, he's be on a governmental watch list and nobody'd want to sit next on him on a plane.
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Come on, who wouldn't want to sit next to a guy like this? B)
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quote:Originally posted by Ritten: If my wife and I ever have another kid I may name him Jesus, since the spanish speaking people do....
Your child will hate you.
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There really are people in the world whose last name is "Christ". You know one of them had to have given in to the temptation at some point.
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I've never met anyone named Christ. ...or Hitler for some reason. Go figure.
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That's because you live in the land of unimaginative names, where children are named after their parents, who are named after their parents, who are named after their parents, and so forth.
There are only 7 actual different first names used by American citizens. FACT.
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...and there's a fabulous prize for anyone who gets all seven in order of their popularity!! That's right, a 2 minute tour of the holy land in the company of Jesus Muhammed Christ Budda W. Hank Bush III!!!
quote: It's also very suspect that he had the statue installed at election time for the Chief Justice's seat (witch he won in, suprise, a very religous state).
You have elections for judges? Wierd.
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Yes, Wraith, and that is only one of the multitude of ways in which we are weird, we could create quite a list, but it would be a long and strange thread to read....
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Would it contain full stops, or would it just go on, like this, without ending, even when the point is changed, a list would be fun...
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My two cents worth.The Ten comandments has alot more going for it than it's religious significance.There are other, perhaps older codes of civilized conduct, that share the same importance to understanding the meaning of law and order.Here's Two of them you might like to study.NO.1 the Code of Hamurabi. http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/ham/ham05.htm NO.2 The Code of The Visigoths http://libro.uca.edu/vcode/visigoths.htm Though each of these early and very well thought out Codes of Conduct have their roots in religion They are far too important to be ignored by the law makers of today and any attempt to prevent their being displayed or taught in schools as part of the history of civilization would be met with a great outcry by historians. And as my friend Forest always said thats all I have to say about that.
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There are only 7 actual different first names used by American citizens. FACT.
...the fuck!?
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Okay, the current EU is a bureaucratic nightmare and completely undemocratic (European Parliament? Who the hell are those people?), and now the church is trying to get involved. Apparently, they want christianity to be somehow different from the other religions, by including it in the new EU constitution. I'm sure all those newbie Eastern European states are only too happy about that. Let's just hope the big three can hold it off.
I know basically all Western constitutions are in fact based on a lot of 'Christian' ideals, but in a new, modern constition, there should be no link at all to any religion, IMO.
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