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Re: Judaism and Christianity is indebted to Zoroastrianism the Heritage of True Aryan And here I need to "confess error". The passage about "dumb blocks of wood" which I cited as clear evidence of "strict" monotheism (i.e., denying that other "gods" have any reality whatsoever) is from 2nd...

No, I really don't see it that way. I was never raised as a Bible believer, so I don't approach the texts with the presupposition that all the authors can be shoehorned into the same opinions. Jesus is talking about whether a man can unilaterally ditch a wife just because he's tired of her...

Re: Judaism and Christianity is indebted to Zoroastrianism the Heritage of True Aryan Some clarification on the linguistic relationships: I distinguish "proto-Indo-Hittite" (common ancestor of Indo-European and the extinct Anatolian languages) from "proto-Indo-European" but some authors...

You have Paul confused with Jesus. Do you believe that Paul is God?

Recent studies suggest that some ethnicities still have ancestral genetic material from the Neanderthals. Considering how the Neanderthals were mostly killed off brutally, some serious compensation is owing...

Re: Judaism and Christianity is indebted to Zoroastrianism the Heritage of True Aryan Keeping count of how many days go by, all month long (that is, until the phases of the moon recur); and then of how many months go by, all year long (that is, to know whether the nice weather is a fluke, or...

Facing death... facing the day without a cigarette... facing death... facing the day without a cigarette.... I'm not sure which is harder. Do I have to go without coffee, too?

I was getting puzzled about how everybody else posted on Sept. 6 and seattlegal then posted on Sept. 5, hmmm, is there a time warp? Guess that just goes to show that I'm not getting any younger either. Happy birthday, juan!

Re: Judaism and Christianity is indebted to Zoroastrianism the Heritage of True Aryan Found this in an inbox: No I wasn't: on an earlier thread I mentioned that I had tried to find the Iranian cognate from the grease/christos/ghee root by looking through the Avestan "Hymn to Fire" but could...

Re: Judaism and Christianity is indebted to Zoroastrianism the Heritage of True Aryan Because the Greeks weren't anywhere near when the Gathas were composed, never learned of Zoroaster's existence until very late, and never did learn anything but the most garbled and fragmentary information...

Re: Judaism and Christianity is indebted to Zoroastrianism the Heritage of True Aryan And so did the Dakota tribes of the great plains, and so did the Australians, and so did Africans. The moon is not that hard to notice, and the idea of using it to track time dates back to the Paleolithic...

This is seldom true.

Re: Judaism and Christianity is indebted to Zoroastrianism the Heritage of True Aryan They consist of scratch-marks on rocks, in groups of 30 and 29, with pictorial indications of where the sunrises had shifted (as viewed from the marker rock) after each month. Believing that anything like...

Those are the good people.

Re: Judaism and Christianity is indebted to Zoroastrianism the Heritage of True Aryan Zoroastrianism like the Abrahamic faiths sees God as an entity distinct from the universe, which is not the Hindu concept of an underlying unity of all; nor is that Hindu conception something found in the...

Re: Judaism and Christianity is indebted to Zoroastrianism the Heritage of True Aryan "God" certainly not, and the Hebrew monotheism was independent of, and older than, the Zoroastrian conception of it, which includes all this apparatus of "Angel" manifestations from God and a "Devil"...

This is the first time I even knew about the existence of schisms within the Baha'i movement, which I find ironic given the original intention to be a unification of all religions, but not surprising given human nature.

It's not as if the moon is hard to notice... Counting up the days is probably the first task that was undertaken with "large" numbers (larger than the number of fingers) in the first place, and calendars of some kind go back to prehistory everywhere except among totally innumerate cultures...

Lunar calendars are carved in rocks in Australia c. 60,000 BC.

Uh, Thomas, you haven't cited any evidence at all. Your statement about "what the evidence indicates" actually means "Other people have made arguments about the evidence, which I don't bother to reproduce here for anyone's examination, because I take their word for it." It is a total lie to...