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Thread #60629   Message #971139
Posted By: artbrooks
23-Jun-03 - 04:19 PM
Thread Name: What price the truth!!
Subject: RE: What price the truth!!
GUEST,Tunesmith, I believe that what Rapaire was pointing out is that your comment of 1:25 PM demonstrates poor research.

The basic religious structure into which the early Christians fit their beliefs was the common one in the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. It borrowed heavily from other established religions, not just from the Greeks, and all of these had been trading belief and ritual back and forth for the previous thousand years or so. They later incorporated bits and pieces from the religions of Northern Europe. All of this is well known, and is covered extensively in any freshman-level Philosophy 101 or Comparative Religions class.   

Whether or not it is true or not is a qestion for each individual to decide.