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gurugeorge · 07-02-2007, 02:02 AM

Just found this rather cool essay by Martin Luther King, of all people, on the subject of the Mysteries and Christianity. He acknowledges the influence (though not of course direct copying), but doesn't find it problematic.

Clivedurdle · 07-02-2007, 09:55 AM

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It is inevitable when a new religion comes to exist side by side with a group of religions, from which it is continually detaching members, introducing them into its own midst with the practices of their original religions impressed upon their minds, that this new religion should tend to assimilate with the assimilation of their members, some of the elements of these existing religions.

Programme on BBC Radio 4 this afternoon commented that some branches of Islam in Turkey have hymn singing and especially venerate Mary and Jesus...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/beyond_belief/

07-02-2007, 02:02 AM	#1
gurugeorge Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: London, UK Posts: 3,210	Martin Luther King on the Mysteries and Christianity Just found this rather cool essay by Martin Luther King, of all people, on the subject of the Mysteries and Christianity. He acknowledges the influence (though not of course direct copying), but doesn't find it problematic.

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