The Persian Inheritance Still Stands
Why Serious Refutations Do Not Break the eFireTemple Thesis Companion essay to The Persian Substrate Holds: A Rigorous Defense of the Inheritance Thesis at Full Strength A serious critique deserves a serious answer. When someone challenges eFireTemple by saying the Persian inheritance argument is too maximal, too linear, or too confident, the correct response is not panic. The correct response is distinction. What exactly has been refuted? And what still stands?
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Why Serious Refutations Do Not Break the eFireTemple Thesis Companion essay to The Persian Substrate Holds: A Rigorous Defense of the Inheritance Thesis at Full Strength A serious critique deserves a serious answer. When someone challenges eFireTemple by saying the Persian inheritance argument is too maximal, too linear, or too confident, the correct response is not panic. The correct response is distinction. What exactly has been refuted? And what still stands? That question matters because most serious refutations do not destroy the Persian inheritance thesis. They usually challenge a weaker version of it. The weak version says: Every major Western religious idea was copied directly, consciously, and maliciously from Persia. That version is easy to attack.
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Gathas · Avesta · Dead Sea Scrolls · Hebrew Bible · Bundahishn