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    fsev411 year, 3 months ago

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    Thanks Ameliog, great find. Lets get it up to the front page and see what AG and the group have to say.

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      bruhaha1 year, 3 months ago

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      They'd just say that Obama borrowed from that other guy's speech (even if he had permission to do so) and that it doesn't matter anyway because Obama's a muslim, the anti-christ, and/or he has a fake birth certificate.

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        lperry80491 year, 3 months ago

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        You are so sick

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        Endoscopy1 year, 3 months ago

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        ROTFLMAO
        There are two symbols that Christians use to secretly let someone know they are a Christian. In Roman times the symbol was a fish. The word fish in Greek made an acronym of a phrase describing Jesus. Today you can see that on cars etc.

        The more modern symbol is the cross. How else in an area where people can be killed for being Christian could you have a guard let a prisoner know. Both countries were at the time communist and Christians were "reeducated" or killed.

        The commonality of the stories only reinforces that they are probably true. Only the symbol and no words that could be overheard.

        Do you people think before you rant? Of course not.

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          bigurn1 year, 3 months ago

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          On the fish: Specifically it is from scripture: Jesus said "what is your task?" The reply was "We are fishermen". Jesus said "Leave your nets, for I will make you Fishers of Men".

          The elliptical fish symbol was used in Roman times. When meetings were secretly held, the first person there would draw an inverted arc. The last person (and who guarded the meeting) would draw a normal arc, connected on the left side and crossing just past midway, symbolizing the connection to the past as Fishers of Men.

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          bigurn1 year, 3 months ago

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          I'd say this:

          FWIW, the story appears in McCain's 1999 "Faith Of My Fathers", although I have no idea whether McCain told it earlier. This would have been shortly after Solzhenitsyn's book came out. What are the odds that McCain read the book, stole the story, and inserted in his own book for *no gain whatsoever*?

          And this: what are the odds that two people in the same century drew a cross in the ground? Gosh, hundreds of millions of Christians. Millions of interactions with other cultures. Yep, sounds fishy that anyone would draw a cross in the earth. Except that literature is full of stories like this; drawing crosses in the ground appears to be more common than anyone thinks.

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