unicorns and religious references in HP (was checking out the library book

[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, ewe2 <ewetoo at g...> wrote:
> Ye-es but I'm really talking about Desert Religion +
Zoroastrianism. It seems everyone before monotheism exhibited 
a relative tolerance to other religions.
> Except the Hebrews. And the Christians. To say nothing of Islam.
Many forget the parts of the Old Testament where various Prophets of
the Lord fought a seemingly hopless battle with their own people to
get them
to stopworshipping bulls, calves, the gods of other religions, etc and
concentrate on the one God. 
>
Pippin:
The polytheistic Egyptians attempted to wipe out the monotheistic
religion of Aten, and decreed that Aten could not be named or
depicted. 

There's a theory that some worshippers of Aten continued to believe 
in their now nameless and imageless god, and this was one of the
roots of Hebrew monotheism.

I think there's an anti-Zorastrian passage in Isaiah where he
identifies God as the creator of both good and evil. 

Pippin