(May 11, 2016 at 8:29 am)Rhythm Wrote:(May 10, 2016 at 9:53 pm)Aractus Wrote: This doesn't mean that other books don't have a clear political agenda, just that the Pentateuch is not the production of vested interests and fiction writers.It was the production of a bunch of altruistic news reporters, was it? Stop, lol. OFC it was the production of fiction writers with vested interests...but so what...what is it you're trying to avoid by arguing against such dry facts as the fictional status of magical narratives...or the origin of fictional stories as being human creativity? You couldn't even keep it together in that single sentence trying to defend -whatever it is- you're defending. You acknowledged a vested interest in the text...an then claimed that this interest was what...non-functional?
Myths don't escape the usual behavior of the myth-makers. Stories are stories. Yes, they work like that. Suppose there was a jesus...assume that to be true for no reason - like we do-. So what, the mythmakers and legend builders -still- had a long go at him. What is presented to us in the text could very well be entirely unrelated to that original kernel of a character. It's pointless to tell me that doesn't happen, that myth doesn;t work like that - because we've seen it happen in modern times with cargo cults and their mythmaking apparatus. Unless you think that the stories of a divine king with cargo in his magical ships is non-fiction...no one made it up, and the construction of all of those ceremonial runways, docks, piers and plane effigies wasn't a pure manifestation of a vested interest.
Rake is more attached to the historicity of Jesus Christ the Pre-Nazareth Nazarene than most Bible-thumpers I've met. I'm still not sure if it's more funny or more sad.
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
