From: Adam Flinton 

RobertB. wrote:

> Ha, ha, and The Sex Pistols thought they were revolutionary.
>

Nah......they thought they were anarchy.

Adam

>
> In article ,
>  Monte Davis  wrote:
>
>
>>A NY Times review of a new biography of playwright and poet Christoper
>>Marlowe, born the same year as Shakespeare but dead in a tavern brawl
>>at 29. Marlowe was (among many other things) a member of a
>>free-thinking clique of young smart-asses at and after college, and a
>>spy for the queen's Privy Council.
>>
>>The reviewer passes on this gem:
>>
>>"In a paper, Richard Baines, a former roommate turned enemy of
>>Marlowe's, summed up for the Privy Council an atheist lecture Marlowe
>>may have [!] presented to Sir Walter Raleigh's group of alleged
>>atheists, who, among other naughty things, spelled the name of God
>>backward. The poet asserted that Moses was a juggler who could easily
>>fool the gullible Jews, that Christ was a bastard and his mother
>>dishonest. Also that he, Marlowe, could come up pronto with a much
>>better religion than the filthily written New Testament. Further, that
>>St. John the Evangelist was Christ's bedfellow, who used him as the
>>sinners of Sodom, and that they who loved not tobacco and boys were
>>fools. Moreover, that he had as good a right to coin money as the
>>queen."
>>
>>This is fourth-hand, and I have no idea how much if any of it was
>>accurate. But you have to admit it's a strong contender for the
>>In-Your-Face Offense Through the Ages competition.
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