Cobol - Re: OT: Racial superiority / Intelligent design was Re: OT:Thanksgiving

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Re: OT: Racial superiority / Intelligent design was Re: OT:Thanksgiving

Howard Brazee

2008-01-31, 6:56 pm

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:09:53 -0800 (PST),
"roger.pearse@googlemail.com" <roger.pearse@googlemail.com> wrote:

>Disclaimer: I have no special knowledge or interest in the various
>modern theories around the process of composition of the canonical
>gospel texts. This is because the material that I *have* read
>suggests to me that these theories don't seem to be derived as closely
>as they might from solid ancient data; and fiction and speculation
>bores me.

When ancient data don't support my beliefs, I need to work more at
interpreting which parts really matter (so that my beliefs get the
support I want).

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