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No, this makes even less sense.
It helps if you try to follow the argument first, and then criticise it later.
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In an account supposedly starting with the civil wars between Caesar and Pompey, Pompey is seen as a simple predecessor to Caeasar ? And why would Pompey be seen as the originator of baptism anyway ?
Pompey was specifically the Golden Child of roman senatorial politics for several decades in his youth, achieved ranks he should have been too young to be eligible for, and had a very impressive career as a general. In many ways, yes, he laid the foundations for the one-man rule the Caesar actually implemented (... by accident, as some would say), and so again, it is not prima facie ridiculous to see in him an analogy to John.
And the lustration perfoemd by soldiers probably goes back to the very early republic as a ritual of entry into the military. Nothing in the above seems to suggest the claim is that Pompey invented the lustration, but rather, again, that the event of Pompey's raising legions and inducting troops, is beeing echoed in covert terms in the christian doctrine.
Please note I have not read the site further, nor do I have an opinion on its content. But you appear to be assuming the worst, and then reading the content in that light.
This message has been edited by contracycle, 05-05-2005 05:19 AM