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Re: Don't do us any favors: msg#01058

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Subject: Re: Don't do us any favors

On 4/28/04 8:11 AM, Patrick T Rourke wrote:

> It is worth noting that they thereby asserted, per accidens, that any
> non-Christian account of history is false.

Why would you expect them to say otherwise?

> So much for historical
> objectivity. Oh, I forgot - objectivity doesn't exist. My religion
> teachers - at a Xaverian high school - were more sophisticated critics
> of the New Testament than that.

And *my* Marist Order hs teachers warned me that I'd be excommunicated for
continuing to read Gibbon.

Gotta' start somewhere, I guess.

JMM / LMC



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