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Old 07-05-2010, 08:13 AM   #630
WT Sharpe
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Oops, yes, hello and welcome Jar. I put your question aside last night because I didn't have the time to answer it, and I almost forgot to do it
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I didn't call Socrates a christian, I said that some chistians "tried to make him an honorary christian" because they recognized similarities between their beliefs and his. Namely the belief in an afterlife where we are rewarded for our good deeds, and the contempt for this life that we do have.
Because he felt they lived virtuous lives, but without Christ (through no fault of their own), Dante placed Socrates, along with Aristotle and Plato, in Limbo (the First Circle of Hell).
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