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less shocking. It’s called transmutation. It helps p
symbology . . . and they simply substitute a different god.”
Now the girl in front looked furious. “You’re implying Christianity is just some kind of .
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“Not at all. Christianity did not borrow only from sun worship. The ritual of Christian
canonization is taken from the ancient ‘god-making’ rite of Euhemerus. The practice o
‘god-eating’-that isHoly Communion-was borrowed from the Aztecs. Even the concept
of Christ dying for our sins is arguably not exclu
young man to absolve the sins of his people appears in the earliest tradition of the
Quetzalcoatl.”
The girl glared. “Sois
anything in Christianity original?”
“Very little in any organized faith is truly original.
They grow from one another. M
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“Um . . . hold on” Hitzrot venturedso
that’s original. How about our image of God? Christian art never portrays God as the
hawk sun godor as an Aztecor as anything weird. It always shows God as an old man
with a white beard. So our image of God is originalright?”
Langdon smiled. “When the early Christian converts abandone
pagan godsRoman godsGreeksunMithraicwhatever-th
. .