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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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