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   Siwel Naph to darylgene@aol.com   
   Re: The Lion, the Which and the Wardrobe   
   09 Oct 05 21:37:31   
   
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   "darylgene@aol.com" wrote:   
      
   >>Mere   
   >>Hinduism" (less apprehensive in SOME ways)   
   >   
   > Depends, there was a cult of Kali that became famous for murdering and   
   > robbing people with yellow sarves. You have doubtless heard of Thugees   
   > we get our "thug" from them.   
      
   Suttee would be a better example, because that was full institutional   
   Hinduism, not a cult repudiated by non-members. Christianity stopped   
   suttee. ("But it is our culture to burn widows!" "And it is our culture to   
   hang those who burn widows.")   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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