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- From: ales@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ales Fiala)
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:41:10 GMT
- Subject: Re: Christian nudists
- Message-ID: <7950033@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
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- > In article <1992Nov16.135854.12190@waikato.ac.nz> bthoms@waikato.ac.nz writes:
- > > While you're digging around on your disks, don't lose sight of the fact that
- > >nudism has only existed for a few decades (compared with a couple of thousand
- > >years' worth of biblical tradition).
- >
- > Sorry, but all accounts of the discovery of the Americus by Europeans describe
- > nude natives. That was 500 years ago. The natives had been around for a long
- > time before that and it can be assumed they were nude all that time. I am
- > sure (but admittedly can not support the argument) that nudism was a natural
- > way of life long before biblical tradition.
-
- Actually, I believe that nudism only existed a few decades. Before that,
- it wasn't any kind of "-ism". People just walked around nude or swam
- nude.
-