On Oct 13, 11:52=A0am, "A. P." <O...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Bruce wrote:
> > On Sep 11, 12:15 pm, Doug Freyburger <dfrey...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >>Bruce <cisco1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Interesting.. =A0..I keep telling people our ROOTS are im****tant.
> > Yet many are too out of touch to understand or appreciate
> > such things.
>
> > Most everybody is *Christian* this or *Christian* that
> > without even blinking. Yet if you believe in Adam and Eve
> > then you have to believe in the religions of their ancestors,
> > which were NOT Christian, or even Jewish to begin with.
>
> But the religion of the ancestors of Adam and Eve wouldn't exist,
> because they were supposedly the first humans. ;)
>
> Seriously, though, I agree: I find it to be patently absurd that
> Europeans have adopted and continue to practice a Semitic religion, and
> revere a Semitic text whose sole purpose is to set the tribal law,
> customs, and history of Israel and its tribes. =A0This would be like
> Africans sitting around on a Wednesday reading the Eddas and discussing
> exactly how their forefathers Askr and Embla were created, and the
> mysterious nature of the triune Odhinn, Hoenir, and Lodhurr.
>
> Humorous oddities abound in this respect, however. I also find it
> comical for one reason or another that so many Indo-European descendents
> are reading a Germanic-language (English) translation of a Semitic
> corpus of texts. =A0It's just... patently absurd. Especially since the
> only Europeans we find in this text are the Hittites and the Persians,
> in which the texts describe their slaughter in no uncertain terms.
>
> Twilight Zone, only not as entertaining.
Kinda reminds me of why there is so much fighting and
disagreement in Israel, cause none of them can agree
on which is which, and which is right! It's like you said..
...it's "patently absurd". Nobody else really even gives
a damn except those who wish to argue about it to
begin with. Unless yer Christian, Jewish, or Muslim,
it doesn't mean a hill of beans.
Thanks for the post..
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