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From: "Chris Bennett" <>
Subject: Re: POSSIBLE GATEWAY: FROM AFRICA TO EUROPE
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 14:07:53 GMT
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"Shawn Potter" <> wrote in message
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> "Chris Bennett" <> wrote in message
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> >
> > What you objected to was a statement that the Solomonic claim is
> > "unsupported and unsupportable".
>
> Chris,
>
> Why do you mistate my objection? I never questioned Todd's statement
> that the claimed descent is "unsupported." I questioned his statement
> that the claimed descent is "unsupportable"

I'll take your word for it. It remains a fact that calling something
unsupportable is not the same as calling it untrue.

and his original statement
> that "The claims of the Aksumite rulers to descend from Solomon are of
> identical nature to the numerous claims of descent from Biblical
> figures (House of David, Noah), heroic figures (Priam, Hengist) and
> gods (Jupiter, Odin)."
>
> Shawn

And you objected to it by claiming that he had made no argument that the
Axumite claims were untrue. But that, precisely, is the argument. You are
surely free not to agree with the argument, but then the onus is on you to
say why, which you don't do by denying that it exists.

Chris


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