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"
Conquering
religions
,
"
he
continued
,
"
often
adopt
existing
holidays
to
make
conversion
less
shocking
.
It
’
s
called
transmutation
.
It
helps
people
acclimatize
to
the
new
faith
.
Worshipers
keep
the
same
holy
dates
,
pray
in
the
same
sacred
locations
,
use
a
similar
symbology
…
and
they
simply
substitute
a
different
god
.
"
Now
the
girl
in
front
looked
furious
.
"
You
’
re
implying
Christianity
is
just
some
kind
of
…
repackaged
sun
worship
!
"
"
Not
at
all
.
Christianity
did
not
borrow
only
from
sun
worship
.
The
ritual
of
Christian
canonization
is
taken
from
the
ancient
‘
god
-
making
’
rite
of
Euhemerus
.
The
practice
of
‘
god
-
eating
’
—
that
is
,
Holy
Communion
—
was
borrowed
from
the
Aztecs
.
Even
the
concept
of
Christ
dying
for
our
sins
is
arguably
not
exclusively
Christian
;
the
self
-
sacrifice
of
a
young
man
to
absolve
the
sins
of
his
people
appears
in
the
earliest
tradition
of
the
Quetzalcoatl
.
"
The
girl
glared
.
"
So
,
is
anything
in
Christianity
original
?
"
"
Very
little
in
any
organized
faith
is
truly
original
.
Religions
are
not
born
from
scratch
.
They
grow
from
one
another
.
Modern
religion
is
a
collage
…
an
assimilated
historical
record
of
man
’
s
quest
to
understand
the
divine
.
"
"
Um
…
hold
on
,
"
Hitzrot
ventured
,
sounding
awake
now
.
"
I
know
something
Christian
that
’
s
original
.
How
about
our
image
of
God
?
Christian
art
never
portrays
God
as
the
hawk
sun
god
,
or
as
an
Aztec
,
or
as
anything
weird
.
It
always
shows
God
as
an
old
man
with
a
white
beard
.
So
our
image
of
God
is
original
,
right
?
"
Langdon
smiled
.
"
When
the
early
Christian
converts
abandoned
their
former
deities
—
pagan
gods
,
Roman
gods
,
Greek
,
sun
,
Mithraic
,
whatever
—
they
asked
the
church
what
their
new
Christian
God
looked
like
.
Wisely
,
the
church
chose
the
most
feared
,
powerful
…
and
familiar
face
in
all
of
recorded
history
.
"
Hitzrot
looked
skeptical
.
"
An
old
man
with
a
white
,
flowing
beard
?
"
Langdon
pointed
to
a
hierarchy
of
ancient
gods
on
the
wall
.
At
the
top
sat
an
old
man
with
a
white
,
flowing
beard
.
"
Does
Zeus
look
familiar
?
"
