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Some Catholic theologians have even compared the puppet's return to life after his hanging to Christ's resurrection. Marxist writers predictably have hailed Pinocchio as a metaphorical hero in the proletarian struggle against capitalistic oppression. Psychologists have mused worriedly about the sexual symbolism of the wooden boy's protruding proboscis...
...centuries, the Patriarchate of Alexandria, with its eminent school of theology, was second only to Rome as the major see of the early church. In the mid-5th century, however, the Coptic church defied orthodox Christian teaching by adhering to the so-called Monophysite heresy, the belief that Jesus Christ had one nature that mystically united his humanity and divinity, rather than two distinct natures, human and divine. Schism ensued, and Coptic Christians were persecuted under the Byzantine Empire...
Born in England in 1945, Schama entered Christ's College, Cambridge, as a student in 1963, the year the Beatles first soared toward international fame. "We all felt in some peculiar way that the Beatles represented us," he says, adding that when he and some friends visited the United States in the early sixties, "everyone kept asking us 'do you know the Beatles?' because we were from England. So we all adopted Liverpool accents and said 'sure...
...Jesus Christ, the guy's a monster...big. Fellas, this guy can make love to the Lincoln Tunnel and all of New Jersey begs for more. Big? Sheesh. C'mon this...
...Accusations That the Mujahedin Are Marxists. Every high school student knows that believing in God, Jesus Christ and Muhammad is incompatible with the philosophy of Marxism. Everyone knows that, even Khomeini. But for dictators like Khomeini, "Marxist Islamic" is a very profitable phrase to use against any opposition. If Jesus Christ and Muhammad were alive and protesting against Khomeini, he would call them Marxists...