Posted on 03/30/2009 11:08:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Speaking of which, a lot of that seems to stem from the 1930s and 40s in the US, when the writings of a Briton, Gerald Massey, became popular. He was a writer heavily invested in linking everything he could to Egypt, that originally God was female, and atheists and Wiccans today like to cite his claims that Judaism and Christianity evolved from Egypt and that Jesus was just a copy of Horace.
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