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1b16ea4 We drank the blood of our enemies. That's why you see Gnostics so hunted. The sacrament of the Eucharist is really drinking the blood of the enemy. The Grail, the Sangraal, is the bloody vehicle. Why else guard it so sacredly? Why should the black honor-guard ride half a continent, half a splintering Empire, stone night and winter day, if it's only for the touch of sweet lips on a humble bowl? No, it's mortal sin they're carrying: to swallow the enemy, down into the slick juicery to be taken in by all the cells. Your officially defined 'mortal sin,' that is. A sin against you. A section of your penal code, that's all. drinking-blood mortal-sin holy-grail gnostic Thomas Pynchon
1a91491 However it--or the kind of extreme individualistic epistemology it embraces--can lead historians to an overly skeptical approach particularly to those sources that were intended to recount and inform events of the past, that is, testimony in this restricted sense. Particularly in Gospels scholarship there is an attitude abroad that approaches the sources with fundamental skepticism, rather than trust, and therefore requires that anything the sources claim be accepted only if historians can independently verify it..... wisdom facts christian-gnosticism christian-history christian-mystics conversion-of-paul epistles epistles-of-paul gentile gnostic gnostic-gospels gnosticism gospel-of-john grosticicm historical-facts historicity-of-paul mystics solomon synoptic-gospels tanakh church christ-myth-theory historicity-of-jesus paul jewish Richard Bauckham