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Sure they end up at David Icke Conventions.

I'm converting judaism

heaven and hell was a zoroastrian belief didnt really influence early judaism/yahweehist beliefs when they wrote their fairy tales --- but they wrote it in for the christians

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I'm converting judaism

heaven and hell was a zoroastrian belief didnt really influence early judaism/yahweehist beliefs when they wrote their fairy tales --- but they wrote it in for the christians

Pffffft? Next you'll be saying that Mohamad wasn't the son of Islam.

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I'm converting judaism

heaven and hell was a zoroastrian belief didnt really influence early judaism/yahweehist beliefs when they wrote their fairy tales --- but they wrote it in for the christians

Pffffft? Next you'll be saying that Mohamad wasn't the son of Islam.

Quote:There are other developments, however, in the Jewish faith which are much more easily connected with Zoroastrian ideas. One of the most visible changes after the Exile is the emergence of a Jewish idea of Heaven, Hell, and the afterlife. Before the Exile and Persian contact, Jews believed that the souls of the dead went to a dull, Hades-like place called "Sheol." After the Exile, the idea of a moralized afterlife, with heavenly rewards for the good and hellish punishment for the evil, appear in Judaism. One of the words for "heaven" in the Bible is Paradise - and this word, from the ancient Iranian words pairi-daeza, "enclosed garden," is one of the very few definite Persian loan-words in the Bible. This moral view of the afterlife is characteristic of Zarathushtrian teaching from its very beginning in the Gathas.

And after double maths it will be... paganism: Schools told to put witchcraft and druids on RE syllabus

Paganism has been included in an official school religious education syllabus for the first time.

Cornwall Council has told its schools that pagan beliefs, which include witchcraft, druidism and the worship of ancient gods such as Thor, should be taught alongside Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

The requirements are spelled out in an agreed syllabus drawn up by Cornwall’s RE advisory group.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1s5wzLMMT

So whats your problem.

You'd rather see them pretending it never existed ?

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And after double maths it will be... paganism: Schools told to put witchcraft and druids on RE syllabus

Paganism has been included in an official school religious education syllabus for the first time.

Cornwall Council has told its schools that pagan beliefs, which include witchcraft, druidism and the worship of ancient gods such as Thor, should be taught alongside Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

The requirements are spelled out in an agreed syllabus drawn up by Cornwall’s RE advisory group.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1s5wzLMMT

I look at it this way:
A percentage of kids will be interested in this anyway, and will read about it outside the school, and develop their own thoughts on the subject. If taught in school, it can be indoctrinated out of them,under the premise of "tolerance of religions". Nip that curiosity for paganism in the bud, and they won't be curious and do further research on their own.
If the first thing I had ever learned about paganism was the gardnerian version of things, I'd probably never had any other interest in the subject.

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heaven and hell was a zoroastrian belief didnt really influence early judaism/yahweehist beliefs when they wrote their fairy tales --- but they wrote it in for the christians

Pffffft? Next you'll be saying that Mohamad wasn't the son of Islam.

you dumb prick

Quote:There are other developments, however, in the Jewish faith which are much more easily connected with Zoroastrian ideas. One of the most visible changes after the Exile is the emergence of a Jewish idea of Heaven, Hell, and the afterlife. Before the Exile and Persian contact, Jews believed that the souls of the dead went to a dull, Hades-like place called "Sheol." After the Exile, the idea of a moralized afterlife, with heavenly rewards for the good and hellish punishment for the evil, appear in Judaism. One of the words for "heaven" in the Bible is Paradise - and this word, from the ancient Iranian words pairi-daeza, "enclosed garden," is one of the very few definite Persian loan-words in the Bible. This moral view of the afterlife is characteristic of Zarathushtrian teaching from its very beginning in the Gathas.