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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Christ: A mere man, liar, or the Son of God?
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Date: Tue, 29-May-84 13:36:04 EDT
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> > I told a friend of mine the other day that I'm another son of
> > GOD. Since he highly respects me, he has decided to write a book
> > about my life; the good things I have said and done. I also have
> > the "godlike" quality of forgiving other's sins. If he throws
> > enough relish into the story do you think I might get some 
> > following say - 1000 years from now??  [LABELLE]

> Sorry, GEORGE. You will only get a following if we are all allowed
> to come over to your house, arrest you, drag you up to the top of
> a hill, nail your hands and feet to a cross and let you die, THEN
> see you rise from the dead three days later. That might qualify you
> to have a follwing 1000 years from now, anything less than that,
> forget it!  [CAREY]

...or perhaps twelve of us could get together, write books about these
imaginary events (how they grabbed Labelle from his home, roasted him
on a spit, ate him for dinner, and how he rose from his own ashes just
in time for dessert (as opposed to "desert")...), and spread the word
to millions of people who desperately needed something to believe in
(not themselves, no, that would be too easy, believing in themselves).
Does anyone think we might just possibly get a large following that way?
-- 
"You are not SAM.  You are not ISAM!!!"
					Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr