Re: Passover/Easter (was: Italogallic in Zera,and other languages.)

At 10:47 28.4.2000 +0100, yl-ruil wrote:

>Christ, only begotten son of the LORD God was actually a pagan himself.
True only if _pagan_ means "traditional ethnic religion", since in that
case Judaism can (perhaps with some stretching) fit into that definition,
as would Hinduism and Shinto.  The question is whether you can go with it,
or the Jewish people following this thread (if any are left)?  This
Buddhist uses _pagan_ in that sense, as opposed to _revealed religion_, and
IMO Judaism and Mazdaism (aka Zoroastrianism) are border cases: they are
based on revelation, but also preserve quite strong ethnic ties.  I guess
the same could be said of some strands of Hinduism, BTW.  The phenomena
lumped together as "Hinduism" are actually very diverse, formal recognition
of the sanctity of the four Vedas being the sole criterion.




/BP

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