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To: SilentZ who wrote (410190)	8/25/2008 3:35:09 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1576230

"Every Greek and Roman god and hero had followers; it certainly doesn't mean they existed." Well, no. However, it is pretty easy to trace how many of them existed in one culture, got passed on down the line, changing names, gaining and losing attributes, evolving. At least some of them could have existed, just not in their final state. As bentway brought up, just look at the Mormons. When you compare what the Church says about its founders and what contemporaries said, you see two totally different sets of people. Now true, the contemporaries accounts very well may have been tainted by anti-Mormon sentiments, but the Mormon accounts of them are more than a little incredible. Magic spectacles? For real? But it doesn't necessarily take the faithful. Just look at the snopes site. People, in their attempts to spin a good story, often take well-known individuals and attack narratives to them that either are true for someone else or is totally made up.