Gospel of Thomas

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

hag comes back w/ a vengeance:

>why are you pretending to simply accept that there was such a person 
>as Christ who said and did certain things? that the bible is actually 
>some kind of history to be taken seriously? oh why do you tease me so?
>
Actually, I kind of adhere to the thesis that Christ was the magic mushroom all 
those Essenes spent their days munching on, for that groovy kind of Jaysus feeling 
(there is such a thesis).  You remain trapped in the systems you deplore, hag old 
fellow peasant.  You think there is an empirical question here that will actually 
decide something in somebody's favor, yes or no, was he *real* or not.  But, if you 
had had more uplifting exposure to American television commercials, you might 
recall the profound theological debate of a decade or so ago, where one angel 
screams: Certs is a candy mint!!! and the other angel screams: Certs is a breath 
mint!!!  But then god the father, appearing in voiceover as he often does, smooths 
things out:  Stop, stop: you're both right.

john m