Problems with the Virgin Birth Story

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Hello again, Joe!

At 04:26 PM 2/10/99 EST, JAlw@aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 99-02-10 13:06:41 EST, you write:

>

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> CREA

>     If all you wanted was sufficient evidence "...that humas would leave

> corpses on the ground or in the air to rot and stink", then this thread

> would have ended last Friday (2/5/99), when I posted material about the

> Zoroastrian practice regarding the manner in which they treated their dead

> -- or didn't you bother to read it?  You're going to have to do better than

> that, Joe. >>

>======================

>Joe Alward:

>

>The Zoroastrian practice *was* extraordinary, wasn't it?  You wouldn't have

>accepted the say-so of, say, just one person that that was a standard

>practice, would you?  You would have wanted a "sufficient" amount of evidence;

>such evidence did exist.  That's what I was asking for in the case of the

>Romans in Judea; those were the "humans" to which I was referring.



CREA
    Unusual, yes, but in my opinion, not any more extraordinary than the
fact that otherwise sane people willingly, and without external compulsion,
consume haba~nero, dundicut and piquin/"birds-eye" peppers.  And by the way,
that passing comment on Zoroastrian burial practice should be *IS*, not *WAS*.


With Mettaa,

Joseph Crea
<Joseph.Crea@worldnet.att.net>

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