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To: E Rocc

>>Gd of Abraham is not same as moon rock god named Allah

> Both the President and the Pope have a different opinion

Here's an interesting "what if:" let's say it's the year 1,000 AD, and Christian missionaries have failed to convert the Norse peoples from their pagan faith. However, born amongst the Vikings is a dyanmic leader who leads a warlike reformation of the faith, doing away with all the lesser gods and turning the faith into a monotheistic belief system, with Odin as the Allfather (as Odin was known, anyway). In the process of this reformation, the reforming leader picks up some of the bits and pieces of the neighboring Christian faith (a few tales from the Old Testament, perhaps, exchanging Odin for Yahweh, blending perhaps the Deluge with Ginnungagigap and Armageddon with Ragnarok), thus linking the two religions.

A thousand years pass, and the Norse Odinist monotheism survives, in conflict with Christianity.

Now... since the two Gods share many attributes and some backstory, would it be accurate to say that Odin = Jehovah, even though the historical source of ODin is quite different from Jehovah?


101 posted on 06/11/2004 11:06:49 AM PDT by orionblamblam
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To: orionblamblam

Brilliant!!!!!!!!!


167 posted on 06/11/2004 12:24:08 PM PDT by fishtank
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To: orionblamblam

Your example is also a good description of Nazism.


284 posted on 06/14/2004 8:54:21 AM PDT by fishtank
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