Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!doug-merritt From: doug-merritt@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: HELP! Corrupted Disks Message-ID: <6763@cup.portal.com> Date: 22 Jun 88 15:09:08 GMT References: <1544@edison.GE.COM> <6428@cup.portal.com> <553@sas.UUCP> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 36 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.4407 I wrote: >"Lazarus" may originally have been a biblical name (cohort of Methusaleh?). Brian Schellenberger wrote: >Heavens, what are they teaching kids in school these days? Oh, sorry, >ACLU took care of that. Talk about not knowing Western culture . . . I beg your pardon. That's rude and uncalled for. >Try watching "Jesus of Nazarath" [...] You'll probably learn a lot about >your own culture. Several people have informed me of who Lazarus was; you're the only one to do it in a self righteous and insulting way. Just for your information, for a non-Christian I'm actually quite well educated about Christian mythology. Compared with Christian scholars, I know nothing at all. But since you're such a hot shot, how would you like to chat with my friend Stan Kelly-Bootle? He's read the entire bible *in the original*. He learned Aramaic and the other dead languages of the originals just for that purpose. And has read all of the various Apocrypha and commentaries and all that stuff. ("But Stan, you're an atheist!" Reply: "Don't you think you should be well informed about what it is you disbelieve???") I'm sure you could get some cheap shots in on him with no problem. Doug P.S. The history of the Church has much to do with the roots of western culture. Knowledge of Christian mythology itself has more to do with understanding literary references than with the culture overall. Disguising religious intolerance in the form of cultural awareness is inaccurate and inadvisable. But let's trade flames via email, hmm? -- Doug Merritt ucbvax!sun.com!cup.portal.com!doug-merritt or ucbvax!eris!doug (doug@eris.berkeley.edu) or ucbvax!unisoft!certes!doug