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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (21670)	7/25/2005 5:53:24 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

It is a brief section of a summary of Franz Cumont's (1868-1947) book on the subject. The reason I am not bothering with "references" is because I don't want to get into the same debate that has already been covered. Now if you were to do some homework on the subject, then at least we'd have some common grounds for the debate. BTW, I never claimed that Christianity did not exist before Constantine, rather that what we call Christianity today is a former high priest of Mithra's interpretations of it after 300 years of Mithraic influence. To make it simpler, look at it this way, if for whatever the reason America was to go through forced conversion to Islam, the version of Islam that would eventually dominate America would be very different than what was in Saudi Arabia due to the cultural differences between the two people. In fact this is exactly what happened to Islam as it conquered different lands and each nation interpreted Koran according to its own perspective. In the case of Islam, Koran was already a written document at the time of its founder and Islam still went through shifts and divisions. What makes you think that somehow Christianity was immune to this process despite the clear disadvantages Christianity had compared to Islam (like having its founder nailed to the cross instead of promoted as the head of state)?