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Damn_Underscore posted...

That's not what I said though. At all. You (or synth, I forget who) basically said that the Abrahamic religions are just stolen from astrology and therefore just as valid (if not less valid) than astrology. "Astrology" being a vague term BTW.

I said no, that's not true.

Your ability to argue here looks real bad when you can't even look back through a few posts to make sure you're addressing the right person.

With my little ad hominem attack on you aside, based upon is not the same as stolen, and if you really wanna go down that path then almost every religion that came out of the Middle East was stolen from the Sumerians and the Egyptians, Buddhism was stolen from the Hindus, Japanese Shinto was stolen from the Chinese, and everything was stolen from the prehistoric animistic shamans. The reality is, the only one that was really stolen was the story of Christ from the Mithras mystery cults (they're the exact same story and anybody who says otherwise is in denial,) which themselves had a whole lot of Egyptian Osiris in them. From the study I've done on astrology (which has a whole lot more to it than the bullshit horoscopes in your newspaper) I think there's something about it that has an influence on us that we can't explain, so the astrological basis in all of these religions might be the one piece of genuine universal truth in all of them (and I mean universal in more than one sense, just making that one explicit to make sure you get it)

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