Well, good day and welcome back to another edition of Ir religiosity and actually I'm really looking forward to this week.

We are continuing with pagan precursors and for those of you who have been following on the website

we've kind of pushed it off because Charlie is a lazy bastard and needs extra time to do some research.

That is absolutely true. It's not that I'm busy or anything, I'm just goddamn lazy.

Yeah, yeah, well we all know how lazy are. I mean we can take a look at your picture and just see how fat and lazy are.

I wasn't aware you could see how fat I was from that picture.

Have you seen the Jowls coming off of you?

But thank you for pointing that out.

Well, you know, I'll work some of that off when mountain biking season comes.

God, you're a dick.

Yeah, yeah, well you're the one that keeps me around. All right so this actually is

very fascinating. This goes to last week or the week before, since we skipped last week.

We went over kind of the Old Testament pagan precursors.

Well, it turns out there's even more in the New Testament.

Now, see, that's something that fascinates me,

because you would think that by the time they got to the New Testament,

that they would have a well-developed

enough religion where they wouldn't have to steal from other people like they did in the

old Testament but obviously I may be wrong in this.

I think you're wrong because some of the most interesting doctrines

don't come directly from Christianity they come from the pagan religions which by

the way had thousands of years to develop their sophisticated doctrines and

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