Re: [tied] Chronology of the Christianization of the East Roman Emp

--- In cybalist@..., CeiSerith@... wrote:

> In a message dated 10/17/2002 2:53:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> richard.wordingham@... writes:
>
>
> > Strictly, yes, lol! But isn't Hinduism the closest we now have

to

> > classical religion? I can't think of any closer system not
> > considered whacky in its locales.
> >
>
> Quite simply, no. The current religion that goes by the

name "Hinduism"

> bears, at most, as much resemblance to the strictly Indo-European

Vedism as

> Christianity does to Judaism. Vedism was indeed close to

classical religion.

What was "classical religion", and why should the Vedic religion be
termed as Indo-European, and not Indian ?

> However, it could not be said to have been closer to it than any

other of

> the Indo-European religions.

Please explain further, closer to what ?

I personally find a particularly close

> correspondence between what we can reconstruct of pre-Zoroastrian

Iranian

> religion and Roman Paganism.

Can you please provide a few details on this pre-Zoroastrian Iranian
religion.

I suspect, however, that in this case we are

> dealing with a form of Hindu nationalism, which solves the

question of how

> Sanskrit could possibly be autochthonous by asserting that it was

essentially

> that which others call "Proto-Indo-European," and that the other

IE languages

> are actually descended from it. Along with this goes the idea

that Hinduism

> was the earliest religion, and that it was carried along with the

IE language

> out of India into Europe, thus making European Pagan religions

degenerate

> forms of the Hindu religion which, the theory goes, was maintained

in its

> purity in India. There is so much wrong with this that it is

difficult to

> know where to start.

Do you have any ideas where the European pagan religions and the
Hindu religion did originate from ?

>
> David Fickett-Wilbar
>
> David Fickett-Wilbar