db> keep public order.  I doubt that Pontius Pilot ever gave Jesus a second
 db> thought; as you suggest, rabble rousers were all over the place, as
 db> Pliny makes pretty clear.
 FR> That was my take on the Christian bible's story as well.  The Jesus
 FR> wasn't anything the Romans or the Jews hadn't seen a hundred times
 FR> before.
 FR> What do you think about the times that Paul/Saul, the Terrorist of
 FR> Tarsus, denied publically that he was in fact from Tarsus?  I can't help
 FR> but wonder if he was embarrassed by the Mithra religion that he grew up
 FR> in.
   I'M not a Christian OR a cultist.  Prove to me scientifically that among
the myriad of mystery religions in the culture of Saul of Tarsus that HE grew
up in the Mithra religion.  Careful, Frederic, I DO have a doctorate in
History and am not in the least ashamed of it.  I'm not proud either - just
didn't want you to be embarrassed in your assumption that you know ALL things
and can pontificate on them without restriction.  You can leave this 
aragraph
out of any reply but that will not obliterate it since everybody's going to
read it and be watching for your response.
   Or, like Andrew Cummins, you can sling a few well-chosen epithets my way 
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avoid the direct challenge.  On THAT you two seem to be in agreement.
Sincerely, 
                                     Frank
                                                                              
                                                       
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