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Re #241: the basic tenets of Judeo-Christian-Muslim, including monothesism, are derivatives of Zoroastrianism, so shouldn't we say that our western culture arose from that? You just can't cut off the roots and claim what's left to be the "origin". (The "Mazda" name for lights that came from the Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda is a modern secular consequence.)
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