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Beowulf: The Product Of Two Faiths? "Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan-spoiled." -Israel Zangwill (1864-1926)
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... Beowulf: The Product Of Two Faiths? "Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan-spoiled." -Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) British playwright and novelist Israel Zangwill made a strong argument about Christians and pagans. Take away the term Christian from a person and one is left with a noble yet corrupted pagan. Pagans were followers of polytheistic religions, if one leaves them with a single God to worship and creates a guideline of rules to follow a Christian is created and the term pagan has been tainted. However indifferent the two terms may be Christianity and paganism are not ruled out as being distant cousins from one another. Similarities can be seen throughout both religions and both religions can be seen throughout the characters in the poem Beowulf. Zangwill's quote applies to the religious themes intertwined within the story. The dating of the poem is told to be sometime between the 8th and 9th century.
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