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To: Brumar89 who wrote (41879)	9/20/2013 1:57:24 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

Zoroastrianism had a tremendous impact on the Old Testament, as admitted by Jewish scholars. jewishencyclopedia.com While Mithraism contributed much to the New Testament ideas. iranchamber.com Denying the facts of history is just as feckless as denying the Biological Sciences. This is far more reading than you are capable of, but others less handicapped by circumstance, prejudice, and ignorance, may find much of value in the following exhaustive study. sacred-texts.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (41879)	9/21/2013 1:12:15 AM
From: 2MAR$	1 Recommendation Recommended By Solon Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Nonsense, we find tremendous influences Indo Persian Zoroastrian thought & cosmology i just listed there & you selectively ignored again, what a deliberate moron. The Indo Persian Zoroastrian thought was of a far older lineage, part of an orignal powerful ogoing presence. An evolution of 2000yrs finally going into that Alexander Hellene amalgamation of the Hellene/Egyptian & Persian empire in around 550BC. Its really then the rude Hebrew tribes finally start to become strcitly monothesistic. Those stories about Moses & Solomon are not real its only after the contact with Cyrus conquering Babylon we find true single God worship begin, some 1000yrs later than portrayed. It was actually not a bad thing living under Persian empire which was far more enlightened than the Assyrian and the later Babylonians also provided a safe harbor from Romans & later Christians. Not all Jews returned from Babylon after Cyrus liberated that city, in fact dum dum, many elected to stay and continued to flourish. The oldest forms of the Torah only date back to this period, of Cyrus conquering Babylon and only later the first assembled books are written by Hellene Jews.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (41879)	9/21/2013 1:32:51 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Christian civilization ....Christianity certainly represents cultural change phenomenon wintnessed many times before when civilizations & empires start to endure stress and enter marked phases of ascent & decline. One superstition got replaced by another in the religious sphere of human imagination, but much of the "civilization" was already in place. Also you mean the term "Judeo/ Christian" that was leaned on propaganda pushed heavily by conservative thinkers and journalists since the 1950s? Stressing common ethical standards of Christianity and Judaism? Such simplemended thinking, good luck with establishing that one umbrella of an American civil religion but the implicent tolerance it finally showed for Jewish/Christian relations is certainly one good advance . One easily can embrace that long lost tolerance finally, from a humanist pov. How many centuries were Jews to endure a super accentuated Christian persecution? No can rewrite history better than Christians and you wonder why there's been such strength & spectacular growth in the secular world? Even the growth of tolerance just between the various Christian sects was such a torturous road, no wonder during the wild industrial revolution that followed, such experiments as Communism & Marxism that followed? Humanism seems to have won in the end, reason & moderation of dogma and the rise of common sense & rationalty. Look at you, learning a little each day, but what selective ignorant maroon you are, typical of Abrahamic religions which rely so heavily on fake history, stories so out of date to be rediculous. (except to rural Americans that buy the propaganda, pass the BBQ)