Theos-Talk Archives (April 2003 Message tt00136)

Steve Stubbs wrote:
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
>
> > Nazarenes existed before Jesus was supposed to have.
> You are confusing Nazarene with Nazarite, a common and understandable 
> error.
Samson was a Nazarite. Nazarenes existed in Roman times.

> > Also note that Blavatsky lived in a time when non-Christians were 
> still
> > put to death for the crime of being who they were.
> She may have been born in such a time, but the Inquiition was 
> defanged for good by Victor Emmanuel in 1870 and its last prisoners 
> released. 
In Russia, persecutions and executions of non-Christians were still 
active until the Revolution. And the Mahatmas DID write that it was a 
good idea to reveal truth in the idiom of people's own religions.

> Its continuing 
> existence disturbed the sleep of Disraeli but the Law of Guarantees, 
> which the pope was forced to sign, strips the Vatican of the power to 
> imprison, torture, and kill people. 
But no effect on the Eastern Churches.

> Sir Walter Scott wrote about that.
Not to mention Sir Reginald Scott (any relation?).