RE: Who made whom?
November 17, 2015 at 8:02 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2015 at 8:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 17, 2015 at 7:45 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(November 17, 2015 at 7:43 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Man made god the way man wants to see himself.
Truer words were never spoken. This is why Odin possesses all the virtues of the Norse and Zeus possesses all the virtues of the Greeks and - but you get the picture.
Boru
Minor, minor gripe. Odin -doesn't- possess all the virtues of the norse. He would be, by their standards, and was depicted as incredibly un-virtuous. What he had was a singular virtue, which he would sacrifice anything for. Thor is closer, possessing a great many of the things they seemed to have seen as virtuous, but lacking in a few crucial areas. Zues was depicted as a tyrant. A terrible, terrible bastard. Long story short, the greeks and norse were better authors. They understood the narrative power of a flawed character. So, it seems, did they jews.......but you couldn't tell that if you asked a christian about the jewish god.
(to clarify, Odin thirsted for knowledge to the expense of anyone and anything, even himself, particularly knowledge that no one should have. Thor was a rabble rousing anyman who also happened to be a cross dressing dimwit.)
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