To: exdaytrader76 who wrote (17796 ) 6/12/2004 7:00:32 PM From: 2MAR$ Respond to of 28931 Zoroastrian I am looking at their web pages. Are the modern followers something like the white supremacists of India? Excuse me ? Are you having some mid-life crisis with reason and the power of critical reading or research in real time of facts and data present regarding comparative religions both ancient and modern ? Or obstinately obtuse for comical reasons or from deeper motivation ? White supremacist of India? Oh my good sweet Lord...i seem to remember some white supremacists last century in northern Europe & colonial Europe, South Africa etc , but in India ? I would suppose/hope you meant the British ? The Aryans invaded/ melded with the Harrapan/Mojendaro indigenous peoples of north India quite a few centuries before Jesus...David or even Moses was born . The ancient Greeks are/were also of Aryan decent/branches as well, btw , and are sometimes credited as being the fathers ( and mothers) to some of the original ideals of Democracy. But I'll let you Google that, and eagerly await your selective findings? ;-) The Aryan/Mojendaro peoples were quite fond of water sports and baptism rites nearly 5000 yrs ago and also imagined "One Creator" of many forms, a "Universal Mind" behind and within all things .... quite fascinating and all-pervading concepts they were playing around with when Moses seemed to be quite lost in the desert for 40 yrs apparently having trouble with finding that "land of milk and honey".ece.lsu.edu If Moses had truely known the "Mind of God" , would he and brother Joshua had to have murdered so many people so soon after the commandments were given ? Ah , but let every living religion have its celebrations and their say , is what i say !<vbg> Could be they were a little ahead of your parade , but that white supremacist of India statement seemed a just a bit "off". I would always consider some rituals within many different peoples strange to me , but none stranger than drinking the blood and eating the flesh of their savior . as I said before --->to each his own , but let us all be a little more discerning and patient. Human History is all a wonderful tapestry isn't it ?