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- From: roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Roelle)
- Subject: Re: Harmony Of The Gospels?
- Message-ID: <roelle.721589225@uars_mag>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University
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- Date: 12 Nov 92 17:27:05 GMT
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- carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
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- >Well, then, if we're going to take the gospels as mere "eyewitness accounts,"
- >then we should treat them the same as *ANY* eyewitness testimony elicited from
- >the witness and recorded some decades after the event. I.e., assign little or
- >no credibility to them.
-
- Eyewitness accounts against Nazi collaborators during the occupation
- of France and officials of concentration camps, events that occurred
- some decades ago, are regarded as credible evidence in criminal trials.
- However there is a growing right-wing minority in Germany who claim that
- the Holocost is fiction.
-
- Curt Roelle
-
- >Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- >Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- >understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
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