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To: Ilaine who wrote (40716)	6/18/1999 1:52:00 PM
From: Chuzzlewit	Read Replies (4) of 108807

Magical thinking is one thing. God is quite another. Is it? Magic often requires a ritual of some sort to achieve a desired end. In that context, what would you call prayer, or behaviors like lighting candles and crossing yourself? Why did the Old Testament God demand sacrifices? And what is more reminiscent of magic than the story of Jesus' death and resurrection in the context of any number of early Greek mystical beliefs that antedated Jesus by at least a thousand years? Frazer's The Golden Bough is a good source of information on those beliefs and practices, and if you haven't read it, may I suggest Mary Renault's The King Must Die? In my opinion, religion is nothing more than highly codified superstition and magic. Only by virtue of the antiquity of the belief is it elevated to anything more. That's why members of traditional religions get away with dismissing newly arisen beliefs as cults. But yesterday's cult is tomorrow's main stream religion. TTFN, CTC

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