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 <<<<<>>>>>
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
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....and his name was Jerusalem Slim.
I kind of like the idea of amplifying the Gnostics. Haven't they got that "Book of Mary" (aka Magdeline)in their library of 'testimonials'? Whew, just think of the splits amongst the relgious dogmatists! Bringing up all this stuff just takes us back to the times when the ruling powers that were, were trying to get control of this ideological baggage and make it serve rc purposes at what was it....the Council of Nicea. Let the fundamentalists stew in their own Idealist juices for awhile. Maybe, it'll keep them out of politics.
Separating church and State,
Mike B)
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