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From: actor@percival.UUCP (Clif Swinford)
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Subject: Re: The worship of Mary
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Date: Tue, 13-Jan-87 03:41:17 EST
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Pagan huh?  Look into Gnostic tradition.  They go back as far as those to
which you probably subscribe, and include specific veneration of masculine
and feminine aspects of the Divine.  And they are, at least in their opinion,
Christian. It's ironic that this was one of the reasons that the gnostics were
suppressed (read: tortured and executed) by the early Catholic church...
As in your case, simply observations...

     Clif Swinford
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