[clue-talk] How do CLUEbies vote?

[Angelo Bertolli]

Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> On 09-28 13:44, dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:
>
>   
>> Revelations was one of a number of apocalyptic Christian books written
>> around that time.  The genre was probably popular for a number of reasons:
>> plague, bad harvests, persecution by the Romans, etc.  It probably seemed
>> to people back then that things were getting worse than they ever had
>> been, and that these must be signs that the end was near.  When
>> Constantine made Christianity a state religion, the Nicean council chose
>> one of those books for inclusion in the Bible, probably on the basis of
>> popularity and the fact that this book was attributed to John.
>>     
>
> It almost didn't make it into the canon, too: 
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Revelation#Early_views
>   

Since we're on the subject of apocrypha (and I wonder how many people 
here have actually read or know anything about the apocrypha), maybe 
some of you would be interested in a "book" that my friend wrote and you 
can read online:

http://cryph.com/


Angelo