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To: SunkenCiv

Actually we don't know what religion Cyrus believed in, because he wouldn't impose it on anyone! Darius I was the first Persian king we know of who openly practiced Zoroastrianism. Cyrus could have been Zoroastrian, or he could have followed the old Indo-Iranian paganism, or who knows what? The assistant pastor of my church has even suggested that Cyrus was a secret believer in the God of Israel, which I guess is as close to converting to Judaism as one could do in those days.


15 posted on 06/07/2006 2:41:30 PM PDT by Berosus ("There is no beauty like Jerusalem, no wealth like Rome, no depravity like Arabia."--the Talmud)
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To: Berosus

:') If true, and if word got out, the Islamic Death Squads which pass for the Praetorian Guard in Iran would be headed over to Cyrus' tomb with high explosives. :')


16 posted on 06/07/2006 3:13:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (All Moslems everywhere advocate murder, including mass murder, and they do it all the time.)
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