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   From: no.spam@no.spam   
      
   Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   > All this "would have" and "must have" sounds like Marxist rhetoric. If that's   
   > what the ideology says should have happened, thyen it "must have" happened,   
   > regardless of empirical events.   
      
   Mercy goodness, have I been harbouring "Marxist thinking"? Perhaps   
   I should get brainwashed so I can think correct thoughts again.   
      
   > Sprinkling your postings with factoids like that does nothing to make them   
   > convincing.   
      
   I can't get away with anything around here, can I, not even a bit of   
   speculation. However I think the oral tradition Neil Anderson mentioned   
   was part of the Old Religion, which was replaced by Christianity,   
   and that this wasn't accomplished by having Jehovah's Witnesses going   
   around door to door giving away copies of the _Watchtower_. I wouldn't   
   have wanted to be a card-carrying Druid back in those days.   
      
   Sean_Q_   
      
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