LH - glad you read the post. ideas evolve, mutate or are appropriated over time, and are 'claimed' by some as being originally their own. it was challenging and confronting for me to read about the earlier versions of Christianity. i am fascinated by the fact that Plato, a humanist, said many of the things that Jesus did, some centuries earlier. he was also a humanist who was vegetarian and believed in reincarnation. nowadays no humanist worth their salt would dare to do that. i find the whole notion of a journey of religious thought compelling - like someone playing hopscotch across time, each jump a slightly different pattern.

freda