Comments on: Body and Soul on Abu Ghraib http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2004/05/22/body-and-soul-on-abu-ghraib/ Feminist, anti-racist, pro-fat, plus whatever else we feel like talking about. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:22:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Julian Elson http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2004/05/22/body-and-soul-on-abu-ghraib/#comment-11999 Julian Elson Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2004/05/22/body-and-soul-on-abu-ghraib/#comment-11999 Unless I'm mistaken, the soldier who drove the lance through Jesus's side, Longinus, went on to become a Christian saint. I'm not a Christian, and I don't know what to believe of it (there are also some rather, uh, unlikely stories about him: his blood cured the blindness of a cruel Roman proconsul (Longinus's blood, that is)) but it's very effective mythology, IMHO. Unless I’m mistaken, the soldier who drove the lance through Jesus’s side, Longinus, went on to become a Christian saint.

I’m not a Christian, and I don’t know what to believe of it (there are also some rather, uh, unlikely stories about him: his blood cured the blindness of a cruel Roman proconsul (Longinus’s blood, that is)) but it’s very effective mythology, IMHO.

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