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“When it comes to Jesus, all we have are memories. There are no lifelike portraits from his day, no stenographic notes recorded on the spot, no accounts of his activities written at the time. Only memories of his life, of what he said and did. Memories written after the fact. Long after the fact. Memories written by people who were not”
― Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
― Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
“Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts.”
― The Ministry for the Future
― The Ministry for the Future
“Skiff?” “Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.”
― Primordial Threat
― Primordial Threat
“The historical Jesus did not make history. The remembered Jesus did.”
― Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
― Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
“Brings to mind the old Arthur C. Clarke quote,” Shepard said. “You know, the one about how any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Anyone capable of harnessing the power of nature would have been worshiped by people far more primitive.”
― The Fifth Kind: Arrival
― The Fifth Kind: Arrival
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