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crowyhead
, September 25, 2006
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Well, er... This is entertaining enough as the potential basis for a fantasy novel, but as far as actual scholarship goes, it's pretty lacking. [a]Murray[/a]'s theory that there was some kind of unified pagan religion in Europe prior to the advent of [kw]Christianity[/kw] is iffy enough (I don't doubt there were pagans, but I don't think it was anything as widespread and organized as she seems to believe), but when she posits that [kw]Joan of Arc [/kw]and [kw]Thomas a Beckett [/kw]were pagan sacrifices, things get pretty wacky.
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