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...David Gelernter, saying, "If you had any brains, you would have realized that there are a lot of people out there who resent bitterly the way techno-nerds like you are changing the world, and you wouldn't have been dumb enough to open an unexpected package from an unknown source." Soon he was writing to the San Francisco Chronicle, threatening to blow up an airplane out of Los Angeles, which caused security to be tightened for several days. He promised to stop if the Times and the Washington Post would publish his magnum opus, a 35,000-word screed...
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...There's a lot of unknown about it, but I'm excited," Nair said...
...proceeded to enunciate his vision of Christ. The kind and good Jesus, he declared, could not possibly be the Son of the implacably just, harshly rational God of the Jewish Prophets. No, that was the wrong God, merely the creator of this world. Jesus was the Son of an unknown and greater God, who out of completely unreasonable kindness and love sent his Son to deliver humankind from the legalistic master of creation. To buttress his beliefs, Marcion purged the miasma of texts Christians used as Scripture to form a "new" testament. In his eyes, it would be composed...
Manichaeism's baroque mythology included a tripartite Jesus: Jesus the Splendor, who, long before the creation of the world, was sent to battle the voracious dark forces that had swallowed up the light; Jesus the Messiah, whose appearance revealed the extent of the unknown God's love for humankind; and, finally, the suffering Jesus, whose Crucifixion symbolized not redemption but, rather, the suffering of light trapped in the material world. Jesus the Splendor lived on the moon, which waxed full each month as light was redeemed from the world and sent heavenward...