From:    Marilyn Burge
To:      Steve Bedard                           Oct-13-93 21:38:32
Subject: No Nonsense

On (08 Oct 93) Steve Bedard wrote to Marilyn Burge...

 SB>
 SB> Do you have evidence for these claims?  I doubt it.  Jesus was a

 I have documentation, which is based on evidence.  Yes.

 "The truth is that the entire Bible is derived from this heathen
 source.  The nythoplasm  of  all myths is that of the creation of the
 world, and all antiquity dramatized it.  Below are a few of the better
 known deluge myths with their Noahs and their gods.

 Culture                Hero                    Warned By
 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 Hebrew                 Noah                    God
 Babylonian             Utnapishtim             Ea
 Persian                Yima                    Ahura Mazda
 Hindu                  Vaivasvata              Vishnu's Avatar
 Chaldean               Xesuthras               Chinos
 Greek                  Deucalion               Prometheus
 Ostyaks                Pairachta               Turin
 Votyaks                Noj                     Inmer
 Mexican                Nata                    Titlacuhuan
 Algonquin              __                      Glooscap
 Choctaw                __                      The Great Spirit"

 The book is named "Deceptions and Myths of the Bible" by Lloyd M.
 Graham.  Just once you ought to read something from the "other side" of
 the argument, unless you are scared to.  The similarities between the
 Twelve Tribes of Israel, the Twelve Diciples, and the Twelve Signs of
 the Zodiac extend far beyond the number "twelve," I can assure you.
 For more on this topic, you might try "Christianity Before Christ,"
 which I cannot quote from, because I lent it to my fundy friend.