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<blockquote type="cite" cite>In a message dated 00-01-22 19:13:49 EST,
you write:<br>
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<< Hasn't it always been obvious to everyone that western
civilization is an<br>
enormous con game, simply picking out predecessors of whom we
approve?<br>
>><br>
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This is a caricature of PC-ness. All cultures and civilizations pick
their<br>
antecedents. The Hebrews in the old days went through a bunch of
writings,<br>
edited them, kept the ones they liked, and this is the Hebrew Bible
or old</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Testament. The rest is Apocrypha. Does
that make it a con game</blockquote>
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<div>Yep. The Bible ain't history.<br>
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