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Understanding Jesus lineage is not a requirement for having a relationship with him.
I beg to differ. I'm not giving anyone 10% of anything unless I know they have good breeding. If Jesus really came from a line began when some drunken sot diddled his two little girls by the smoking ruins of their old city, well, let's just say I've known people with family histories like that, and in my experience, Jesus could probably qualify for welfare, rather then having my money.
Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances, . . . and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, lest the unbeliever see only ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn."
- St. Augustine, "De Genesi ad litteram libri duodecim"
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What kind of malevolent disease are you?
-One of Dickweed Zero's Alternate Personalities
