Judas
Carl Geisik cgeisik@lanl.gov
Tue, 01 Dec 1998 10:57:22 -0700 (00912556642, 3.0.32.19981201105722.0093f710@dxmail.lanl.gov)
At 09:41 AM 12/1/98 -0800, you wrote:
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>---Carl Geisik <cgeisik@lanl.gov> wrote:
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>> Seriously, this Judas thing was the topic of a lunch time discussion
>with
>> some of the "rollers" I work with. Two of the four of them were not
>even
>> AWARE of the two versions and spent a few minutes arguing with the
>other
>> two. After a short discussion, one of them came up with the brilliant
>> deduction that Judas had indeed hanged himself, but after hanging on
>the
>> tree for some time fell and burst open.
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>Tim
>Acts says that his body fell "headlong". Therefore the apologist must
>also posit some explanation of how his body flipped on its descent
>from the tree. If they reply that his body hit a branch on the way
>down that still doesn't solve the problem, because the fall could not
>have begun in a headlong fashion, so the account would therefore be
>describing only that part of the fall that occurred after the body hit
>the branch. Of course, if they assert that this unlikely event
>happened once, I ask for a newspaper account of a hanging suicide
>where all these particulars
>(headlong fall, hit branch, etc.) occurred to verify the likelihood of
>such an event.
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Curious as it may seem, I asked them about the "headlong" quote. One of
them rolled their eyes and said that this accurately describes how a body
WOULD INDEED fall after the rope broke. I guess the "branch" thing did not
occur to them at the time.
Christianity is indeed stranger than fiction!
Carl