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  "thread": {
    "id": 3983,
    "subject": "Zoroastrianism",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2003-05-08T18:36:51+00:00",
    "last": "2003-05-08T23:33:07+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0305-3371@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Josh Geller",
        "address": "brunians at brunians.org"
      },
      "date": "2003-05-08T18:36:51+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Zoroastrianism",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 10:11, James Jordan wrote:\n         Whatever Z. may be now, or may have been in the 1st century, the \nquestion is what it was in Latro's day. Given the friendliness of the \nPersian rulers to the Jews, it seems that ur-Zoroastrians may have thought \nthey were worshipping the same God under different names. "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Those were not ur-Zoroastrians, in Cyrus the Great's time. Zoroaster \npreached about a thousand years before this."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "                                                        Reading the works \nof Zarathustra, one wonders if he had not been influenced by diaspora Jews."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "That would have been quite a trick.\n \nThe influence is all the other way, as near as I can tell. \n\nCyrus the Great conquered Iraq, and sent the Jews home. These Jews that\nhe sent home were sent there to run Palestine for him. They got up a \ncommittee to rewrite their scriptures, coincidentally making them more\nZoroastrianlike in the process.\n\nJosh"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0305-3378@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "gordon meuse",
        "address": "gordanus at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-05-08T22:50:18+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Zoroastrianism",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0305-3371@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Whatever Z. may be now, or may have been in the 1st century, the question \nis what it was in Latro's day. Given the friendliness of the Persian rulers \nto the Jews, it seems that ur-Zoroastrians may have thought they were \nworshipping the same God under different names."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "the truth is that the jews of the time wanted to make it seem that Cyrus was \nworshipping the same god as them, but this just wasn't the case."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0305-3379@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Josh Geller",
        "address": "brunians at brunians.org"
      },
      "date": "2003-05-08T23:33:07+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Zoroastrianism",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0305-3378@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 15:50, gordon meuse wrote:\nWhatever Z. may be now, or may have been in the 1st century, the question \nis what it was in Latro's day. Given the friendliness of the Persian rulers \nto the Jews, it seems that ur-Zoroastrians may have thought they were \nworshipping the same God under different names."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "the truth is that the jews of the time wanted to make it seem that Cyrus was \nworshipping the same god as them, but this just wasn't the case."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "It's a good thing, when we are lost in confusion, that someone should\nstep right up and tell us the Truth. No one could possibly deny this.\n\n\n\nJosh"
        }
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