RE: Richard Carrier - The Hero Savior Analogy
October 3, 2016 at 11:32 am
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2016 at 11:43 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Which is easy. What we have are a collection of myths, taken..in the sense of belief, by some to be legends. We don;t have a jesus. We don;t have historical records of -that guy-. We -do- have the gospels, as we see them today, stories about a demi-god who saves the world with his magical blood. We -do- have historical evidence of the beliefs of various christian sects. What we have, is the history of the assumption of a belief that jesus was a man long after the purported events which the narrative describes, and out of a corpus in which he was not described -as such-. What we -have- is the history of one christian sect declaring the others heretical (notably, for the very belief that jesus was neither a man nor the god of the OT) while blatantly ripping their foundational myths, or legends......depending upon whether or not you or anyone else can -ever- drop some historical evidence on that table.
(see, I don't even complain when you shift the burden, lol.......I just pony the fuck up like I give a damn.......)
(see, I don't even complain when you shift the burden, lol.......I just pony the fuck up like I give a damn.......)
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