In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
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James of the New Testament as radical
Mon, 2007/04/23 - 12:26am — Benjamin Melançon
the laborer with a too-low wage is being robbed by his employer
(paraphrased)
- James, according to Dad
Josephus mentions John the Baptist prominently, and Jesus and James were all followers
in all of Paul's, Augustine's, Luther's writings there is nothing about the poor.
Luther wanted James' stuff thrown out
(The John /book/ is not John the Baptist-- who was not a deciphel, they were followers of his)
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"One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts."
--quote to Walter Daellenbach, May 31, 1915.