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

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Friday, April 28, 2000, 21:58
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 B.Philip Jonsson mailto:bpj@netg.se mailto:melroch@my-deja.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~__ Anant' avanaute quettalmar! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ___ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /Melarocco\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine__ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ I neer Pityancalimeo\ \_____/ /ar/ /_atar Mercasso naan ~~~~~~~~~Cuinondil~~~\_______/~~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda cuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)