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Reviewer: timescribe Signed [Report This]
Date: June 09 2011 8:02 PM Title: Chapter 10

Methinks they not be Christians, or does their faith win out over their doubting, as Thomas's did in the end?
Then who be me to judge? If they accepted Jesus as Lord and Saviour and committed their lives to Him, they'd make it to heaven and the new earth with eternal life yet. 



Author's Response: Well, their official anglophonic name is "St. Thomas Christians." "Nasrani" is apparently what they call themselves, in India. I simply adopted the term in an effort at increasing this story's historical verisimilitude.* *A word Carl Reiner once wanted to stamp out! ;-)

Reviewer: Carycomic Signed [Report This]
Date: June 07 2011 11:29 AM Title: Chapter 10

* Lua: ancient Roman goddess of captured weapons.

Mercedarian: any member of a medieval order of Spanish knights, whose primary purpose was to swap themselves for any Christian religious pilgrim captured by Muslims (if the former were too poor to buy their own freedom, and were in danger of converting to Islam).

Nasrani Christians: Asiatic Indians who belong to the Church of St. Thomas the Doubter.

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