I got to page three of this thread and my brain couldn't take it.
I just have one question:
Why the FUCK do people constantly use the argument that "Christianity spread so quickly" as their "proof" that Jesus must have lived or must have been supernatural?
In an age where mass-media allows the spread of ideas and stories like never before, I think a perfect example of how people can take a completely fictional concept and allow it to overturn their lives is the movie Avatar. Within days of opening, people were getting depressed and talking about committing suicide to be reincarnated on a FICTIONAL planet.
Soon after the Harry Potter took off with its first book, you had a wave of people reading all of the subsequent ones. And dressing up like Harry. And making fanfictions about Harry. And it's gotten to the point that current religions point to Harry as a threat and they hold "music festivals" in which bands pretend to be the bands mentioned in the books. Do you see how ridiculous this might seem to an outsider if they saw this? A copy of a Harry Potter book in most households, the kids parroting things from the story, the discussions of morality and ethics embedded in the story... come the fuck on.
In an age with no X-box or True Blood, what the hell else were people going to talk about? It's absolutely insane to use this argument. Is there a fallacy named for it yet?
I just have one question:
Why the FUCK do people constantly use the argument that "Christianity spread so quickly" as their "proof" that Jesus must have lived or must have been supernatural?
In an age where mass-media allows the spread of ideas and stories like never before, I think a perfect example of how people can take a completely fictional concept and allow it to overturn their lives is the movie Avatar. Within days of opening, people were getting depressed and talking about committing suicide to be reincarnated on a FICTIONAL planet.
Soon after the Harry Potter took off with its first book, you had a wave of people reading all of the subsequent ones. And dressing up like Harry. And making fanfictions about Harry. And it's gotten to the point that current religions point to Harry as a threat and they hold "music festivals" in which bands pretend to be the bands mentioned in the books. Do you see how ridiculous this might seem to an outsider if they saw this? A copy of a Harry Potter book in most households, the kids parroting things from the story, the discussions of morality and ethics embedded in the story... come the fuck on.
In an age with no X-box or True Blood, what the hell else were people going to talk about? It's absolutely insane to use this argument. Is there a fallacy named for it yet?
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