[sockmonkey]

I think I won.

Ivan van Sertima's "scholarship" in his "ethnocentric" view of the history of the world has pretty much been dismissed as fantasy and rubbish.

[Mikey_1962]

Fine. According to you the Christmas tree is not a Pagan symbol adopted by Christianity, the Easter egg is not a tribute to Ishtar the Assyrian god, adopted by Christianity,
and the oblelisk in St Peter’s Square is not a Roman tribute to the Sun god, no... these are all original Christian symbols.

Fine be ignorant. I am a devout Roman Catholic who knows, and I vow not to be ignorant to the adoption of local beliefs by the Church in the greater good.

Believe what you want but those of us who have been trained by the Jesuits have been warned to avoid the ignorant. So I will ignore you.