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>DAY BROWN wrote to John Boone about Reality and Consciousnes
 DB> Had it not been for Alexander, we would probly still have this 
 DB> religion.  But his armies were so successful, that anything that 
 DB> was associated with Persian culture was discredited.  If this God 
 DB> was so good, then why didn't he protect them from the Greeks? 
 You cannot use this premise in your question - "If this God was so good,
 then why didn't he protect [Persians] from the Greeks?" - because, in
 fact, Alexander's armies, first, did not have to defeat the Persians
 at large, in fact Darius surrendered fairly without a fight, and with
 gifts too.  And secondly, the Persian culture, as with all cultures which
 Alexander came in contact with, was _embraced_ and not discredited at
 any rate.
 
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