The Origins of One Version of Monotheism

[East Coast Hustle]

I just ate over a pound of baked beans with salt pork and duck breast. I can barely move.

ECH,
considering the "sea cucumber" defense

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I just ate over a pound of baked beans with salt pork and duck breast. I can barely move.

ECH,
considering the "sea cucumber" defense

[Kaienne]

Well I read it, and I thought it was freakin' fantastic.

[BumWurst]

I like it
You might also mention the fact that newborn religions are highly syncretic and gather local traditions and beliefs, altering them where appropriate, to make more palatable the new pantheon or God to the locals. The end result is something like the Catholic Church, for example, which celebrates traditions and a worships a God quite unlike those proposed or described in the Bible, so any attack on paganism is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of Christianity and the movement's absorbtion of, well, almost everything in its path through the centuries. Hell of a lot of Paganism wrapped up in there.

But anyway, the only reason you can even half-win an argument with a Christian these days is because he can,Äôt have you tied to a ducking stool or burned at the stake. You can,Äôt argue with that kind of viewpoint, 'cos it's fundamentally illogical, and based on, well, neurosis really. Where there is a vested psychological interest you may as well argue with a wall.

[East Coast Hustle]

Well I read it, and I thought it was freakin' fantastic.

good. you can find Hugh at www.erisbarandgrill.com

it's probably more your speed.