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christianity can`t save itself...what`s it gonna do fo us?
Posted by pancho (Guest) - Thursday, May 18 2006, 17:02:13 (CEST)
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...I`d like to believe I am a full blooded Assyrian as much as the next person...why not? Except that it defies logic, history and sanity...and you can see what it does to people who take it too seriously. That isn`t to say there aren`t whispers of all the cultures of BetNahrain floating around us today...but hardly a traceable bloodline. The people who believe that have gone daffy trying to make their case. On the one hand you have the religious nuts who despise everything of ancient Assyria and are as glad as hell that they adopted a Jewish culture....who use "Assyria" as a crowbar to pry some Christian corner loose from Iraq, on the grounds that, as Christians, they are the indigenous people of Iraq...go figure. Then you have the not-so-religious though still weird "national" types who actually believe the blood of Ashurbanipal runs in their veins etc. and though they`ve degraded it somewhat still, they deserve SOMETHING.

The odd thing is that BOTH these groups got their convictions thanks to the Europeans. You hear of Kurds making their proud claims down through the centuries without the aid of a Layard or Koldeway...but I can`t see any instance of "Assyrian Pride" or even consciousness say in 1769....or even 1812. Up till then it`s ALL Christian ALL the time...and nothing BUT Christian...Nestorian, to be exact. Hell even the Church of The East only added "Assyrian" to its name in the last century or so...

Like I said...it`s a nice fantasy...but it`s unhinged so many already weak headed types that it`s really not good for your health to take it too seriously. You want to grow up like Aprim? Or, rather, NOT grow up...like Aprim?



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