Re: [tied] Religion and IE origins

--- Glen Gordon <glengordon01@...> wrote:

> As far as I see, these religious systems you mention
> are related
> and mostly stem from the Neolithic of the eastern
> Mediterranean
> where I believe there was once great influence on
> the surrounding
> cultures and languages. Christian mythology would
> also stem from
> here, such as the concept of the demi-god known as
> "Jesus" (aka
> Hercules, Gilgamesh) and the self-impregnating (or
> perhaps
> "sexually promiscuous") goddess known as "Mary" (aka
> Aphrodite,
> Venus, Ishtar, Inanna).

******GK: Glen, what's the point of this? I find most
of your analyses quite persuasive (sober, logical even
if occasionally couched in abrasively Glennish
language). But when you get into the topic of religion
you occasionally lose it, and come up with utterly
irrelevant crapola like some of the above. Mary is not
a goddess, and is not considered to have
self-impregnated. At least get your "facts" straight.
I'm not particularly religious, but I don't happen to
think that religion per se is the devil's work (or
whatever activates your hate glands). Keep it cool
OK?*******

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