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WhoCountsTheVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 03:38 PM
Response to Reply #118
125. not necessarily
I actually think the "Christian story" existed prior to the Jewish story of the old Testament, and was adapted to fit with the OT. As WaltStarr said, you could consider Christianity to be one in a long line of pagan religions - in fact, the oldest continuos, existing pagan religion. Most pagan religions existing today are based on Christianity in fact.

"In coparison the fundimental Xian view is very fixed. Any questioning is rejected. "

Of course, fundamentalist Christianity is mostly a tiny sliver of Christianity, and barely 100 years old. Your assertion doesn't hold for most Christianity I don't think.

There always seems to be a tendency to give all other religions an expansive ideological framework while trying to put Christianity into the narrowest possible boundary. Why is that?

"Hang around some Rabbi's for a time and you will see that Judaic approaches to the nature of the world around us are still very exploratory."

Funny, that's not my experience at all.
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