Thursday Dec 02, 2004

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So... one of my good friends is taking a "History of Religion" class and her teacher is not going to talk about paganism. The beginning of the class, and religion according to him, started with Judaism. How can anyone ever say that paganism was not the basis of religion when it's well known that polytheism predated monotheism?
chi:
Paganism is more of a class of relgion(s). Other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism. Mainly consisting of multiple gods (polytheism) and sometimes connected to nature (ie:wicca). It covers a wide range of religions.
So...I can see his view on how it wouldnt be the start since its not a contained religion.

*edited to say*:::being that even still...I dont think he should completley dismiss it as a religion on a whole, since it did spring others from it. I think it is an important part of history and since that the name of the class...."History of Religion, he should definetly include it is his lesson plan.

[Edited on Dec 03, 2004 9:35PM]

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