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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 11:08 AM
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Betcha didn't know...
Edited on Wed Mar-16-05 11:09 AM by trotsky
That all these items were never used by any other religions before Xianity, did you? :eyes:
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onager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 12:19 PM
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1. Why, no!
Wow! I guess it's like the Xians are always saying--before JeeZus there was no mythology, law, morality, or even HISTORY! At least none that mattered.

Damn! It's too bad the Persians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Macedonians and BCE Romans didn't have Xianity! They might have conquered, like, the whole known world or something!

:eyes:
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 09:05 PM
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2. You know, if the ancient Greeks had had Christianity,
they might have laid the cornerstone for all Western political thought.

Sadly, they didn't, so they were left with a bunch of hacks and incompetents like Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Aristophanes ...

Thank God the Golden Age of Byzantine Christianity arrived and provided the world with thinkers like ...

...

um ....

hang on ...

no, it's gone.
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