[lbo-talk] Gnostic Gospels and Conspiracy Theory

[Michael Hoover]

>>> critical.montages at gmail.com 04/09/06 1:03 PM >>>
Carrol wrote: "I do believe that there has been among leftists (both atheist &
christian) a good deal of wishful thinking about the early church."

Gnostic Gospels are like bad "indie" films that some people feel
obligated to champion (just because they are "indie"!) against the
Synoptic Gospels, which are like good Hollywood films.
Yoshie
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pre-church: there was this dirty, funky hippie out of the back streets of 
galilee who threw the moneychangers out of the temple and called for 
folks to organize, not a bad story even if it is a fiction...   mh