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From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
In article <7kzue.1181$Dv3.429@tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com>,
Ryan P. wrote:
>The Doctor wrote:
>
>>>
>>> You can thank the Romans for teaching Christians that little trick.
>>>Its far easier to convert somebody when you allow them to keep their
>>>major "holidays" than when you try to make the quit cold turkey.
>>
>>
>> So did Christianity conquer Rome or was Christianity Romainzed?
>
> Ahhh... the crux of the REAL question.
>
> If you take a stictly historical view of things, EVERY culture is
>influenced by every other culture it encounters. Christianity, "pagan"
>(since we're for some reason insisting that "paganism" is a specific
>belief), Roman, Irish, whatever.
>
> 2,000 years from now, people could be arguing about whether monkies
>learned sign language from us, or if we adopted a system that monkies
>already used amongst themselves.
Just answer the question.
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