response 245 of 293:

Dec 18 17:15 UTC 2003

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.)