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apostles" (i.e., those sent on a mission)

The approach taken to the Bible in almost all Protestant (and now Catholic) mainline seminaries is what is called the "historical-critical" method.

the time when Christianity arose, with its exalted claims about Jesus, was the same time when the emperor cult had started to move into full swing, with its exalted claims about the emperor.

When the verses on women are removed, the passage flows neatly without a break. This too suggests that these verses were inserted into the passage later.

Gospels, Acts, letters, and apocalypses (these are the four literary genres of the New Testament

And that's one reason why you will not find fundamentalists at the forefront of critical scholarship.

the manuscripts back immediately and return the worthless checks.

the Sadducees, even though in Jesus's day they were the real power players in Judea.

the worship that is due only to the gods.

similarity among all the speeches in Acts suggests that they were written by the same person—Luke.

In no first-century Greek or Roman (pagan) source is Jesus mentioned. Scholars

Instead of going into the bar, where dark shadows sat sampling the tasty waters of oblivion

Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, but Carrie White eats shit.

It proves little, except that perhaps in America even a pig can aspire to immortality.

The day will never come in when I lose enough respect for my own hide to shit on a Texan's mother, Stuart.

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the least opportune moments.

Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.

Why would she do that? Because she's a Yankee - a Maine Yankee, the worst kind. On a given day, they can make the Irish look logical.

By committing suicide, Al had taken away the scholar's greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.

The author of so many evils," he said.

So fell Lord Perth, he said, and the countryside did shake with that thunder.

There'll always be a market for shit, of course. Just look at Jeffrey Archer! He writes like old people fuck doesn't he?

THERE IS NO GRAVITY, THE EARTH JUST SUCKS.

And when she talks of Carrie White her face takes on an odd pinched look that is more like Lovecraft out of Arkham than Kerouac out of Southern Cal.