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CHLow: Dark/Light Neopaganism

To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.pagan,talk.religion.misc,alt.religion.christian,alt.satanism
From: jasonp@argon.GAS.UUG.Arizona.EDU (Jason Posey )
Subject: Re: CHLow: Dark/Light Neopaganism (Was Re: Dark roygbiv Light)
Date: 9 Jan 1996 00:26:47 GMT

In article <4cqu98$qvf@peabody.Colorado.EDU>,
ANGLISS  BRIAN EDWARD  wrote:
>From: ANGLISS  BRIAN EDWARD 
>On Fri, 5 Jan 1996, Mandrake .....the Bard wrote:
>My entire point is that modern pagans cannot avoid being influenced by 
>Christianity.  The very fact that there is no unbroken line remaining is, 
>to my view, the most obvious influence.  The fact that we have to 
>reconstruct anything is proof of Christianity's influence, since it was 
>that particular religion that destroyed most of the pagan(and in this 
>guise I mean _only_ European cultures, based in Greek, Roman, Germanic, 
>Celtic, and other similar cultures.  The Egyptions and most other ancient 
>Middle Eastern cultures were, to my limited knowledge, more or less  
>destroyed long before the Christians came along, but I'd be interested 
>in hearing more about this particular aspect of history from someone 
>else) religions or encorporated thier beliefs into its practices.

Actually, most of the religions of the region were still around. The cult 
of Osiris, in fact, had a considerable influence on the development of 
Coptic Christian beliefs, including a number of stories about the Virgin 
Mary which were borrowed directly from tales about Isis. It was 
Christians who destroyed the last known active temple to the ancient 
Egyptian gods. Furthermore, there were, of course, the Magi who supposedly 
visited Jesus' birth; even if the story is entirely fictitious, it shows 
that Zoroastrianism was still a major force in the region - remained so, 
in fact, until the rise of Islam, and still survives in some areas. 


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