Okay, so three sources. One from Mexico and one from the UK. The program was voluntary, the Employee was basically doubling their money, because the company was adding store credit. There were employees who didn't choose to use the program. The lawsuit was filed by one former employee. I'm sure I'm not changing minds, so I'll make this my last statement on the subject.

They told me that also.

Which gets to MsHarmonys comment. If there is only One God it is
logically the same God for everyone. But of course it makes no
difference what you call God - Jesus, Buddha, Allah, Yahweh or
Redd Foxx and it certainly makes no sense to attempt to describe
God in anthropomorphic terms. Although if you wish to picture him
as an Asian 3 month old girl then it is fine. And God doesn't care
whether you "believe" in One God or faeries either. God has made me
come to realize this all on my own - but I do not claim to be a
prophet.

Well there are others from the time period too...I just don't think
it is so cut and dried...

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Josephus (A.D. 37 - c. A.D. 100)

Josephus' Antiquities (early 2nd century A.D.) refers to Jesus in two separate passages. The common translation of the first passage, Book 18, Ch. 3, part 3, is disputed and is most likely from an altered source. F. F. Bruce has provided a more likely translation:

Now there arose at this time a source of further trouble in one Jesus, a wise man who performed surprising works, a teacher of men who gladly welcome strange things. He led away many Jews, and also many of the Gentiles. He was the so-called Christ. When Pilate, acting on information supplied by the chief men around us, condemned him to the cross, those who had attached themselves to him at first did not cease to cause trouble, and the tribe of Christians, which has taken this name from him is not extinct even today.

The translations of this passage are discussed in Josephus: Testimonium Flavianum from Jesus.com.au.

The second passage is from Book 20, Ch. 9, part 1:

...so he assembled the sanhedrim of judges, and brought before them the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James, and some others, [or, some of his companions]; and when he had formed an accusation against them as breakers of the law, he delivered them to be stoned...

(Note: The Antiquities can be found at several different sites, including the Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Perseus Digital Library and Crosswalk.com)


Tacitus (c. A.D. 55 - c. A.D. 117)
Annals, book XV:

Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular.


Suetonius (c. A.D. 69 - c. A.D. 140)

Lives of the Caesars - Claudius, sec. 25:

He banished from Rome all the Jews, who were continually making disturbances at the instigation of one Chrestus.

Lives of the Caesars - Nero, sec. 16

Punishment was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.


Julius Africanus (c. 160 - c. 240)

Chronography, XVIII refers to writings by Thallus and Phlegon concerning the darkness during the Crucifixion:

On the whole world there pressed a most fearful darkness; and the rocks were rent by an earthquake, and many places in Judea and other districts were thrown down. This darkness Thallus, in the third book of his History, calls, as appears to me without reason, an eclipse of the sun...Phlegon records that, in the time of Tiberius Caesar, at full moon, there was a full eclipse of the sun from the sixth hour to the ninth - manifestly that one of which we speak.


Origen (c. 185 - c. 254)

In Against Celsus, Origen quotes Celsus, a second-century skeptic, on Jesus. Celsus' view of Christians and Christianity, an article from Bluffton College, contains relevant excerpts.


Pliny the Younger (c. 62 - c. 113)

Letters, 10.96-97 records Pliny's dealings with Christians

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BTW, I just closed my Bible. Did the 10 Commandments cease to exist
yet? Or are they still there?!

Well,,, It is true that there is ONLY ONE GOD and that is the FATHER of JESUS CHRIST the SON of GOD. No matter how many FALSE GOD we/you worship, generally we do only have ONE.. We just named it differently.

Well there is always Josephus etc.

http://www.rationalchristianity.net/jesus_extrabib.html

A third passage, the famous Testimonium Flavianum found in the Antiquities of the Jews 18.63-64, in its current form summarizes the ministry and death of Jesus; but the authenticity of this passage remains contested by many scholars, and has been the topic of ongoing debate since the 17th century. The most widely held current scholarly opinion is that the Testimonium Flavianum is partially authentic; but that those words and phrases that correspond with standard Christian formulae are additions from a Christian copyist.[3][4]

Erm... Love Sculpture, ELP, but not ELO.

In some industries, yes it does. In some industries, it doesn't. Honda, Toyota and Mercedes Benz all have factories in the USA. It's expensive to move cars across oceans, so it's cheaper to build them in the USA. You guys act like everyone in the USA is jobless, but take heart, Obama hasn't been allowed to finish his "change" yet.

We have the second highest corporate income tax rate in the industrialized world. If we dropped it, many of the the companies that have left would come back.

Hell, they turned Angel into a latina with fairy wings.