Stevertigo wrote:
Yes, those facts were more or less correct -- although facts can never be complete. In any case - I dont think this is the venue or forum for a discussion of religion - as Im explaing to LD in private email. ( It's open season on the brand-spanking *new religions though ;)
If this thread was however, a clever tool to regain the active interest of our long lost colleague Julie Hoffman Kemp - then all goes according to plan. :)
-Steven
BTW Steven your last post was again black on black.
LD in his boundless enthusiasm had managed to miss the metaphorical significance of the Nietzsche quotation: "There are no Christians alive today, the last one died on the cross." In what should perhaps also have included a smiley, he seemed to suggest that Christ was not a Christian. Of course, there is no obligation that someone must be that for which he is an eponym, but it does help if one recognizes an historical personage's cultural importance even as one questions the theology.
Some people have a hard time with metaphor
Ec