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Re: The Great Debate Embarrassment
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Friday, January 23 2009, 19:49:51 (CET)
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The topic was the existence of modern Assyrians....oh lord! It was too long ago and I'm too embarrassed to remember exactly what I said....my main emphasis, I am pleased to report, was that the ancient Assyrians were not barbarians to be compared with Hitler! I quoted a few passages etc. Also that they did NOT steal the "lost tribes" of Israel. I stayed away from modern Assyrians and Christianity.

I do remember, when we threw it open to questions, that one of the six Assyrians in attendance raised his hand to explain that Assyrians had been the earliest converts to Christianity...oddly enough I took exception to THAT. I argued back, from the podium, that not all Assyrians converted to Christianity...the majority converted to Islam later and that King Abgar was a myth...the Jews in attendance were delighted.

So even there, we Assyrians managed to fight each other! I think this because we don't have any firm basis for what we believe...because it's all been made up and invented and rests on nothing more than our sainted grandmothers..who were lied to by their priests.



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