RE: Best books debunking Christianity
November 28, 2017 at 12:17 pm
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2017 at 12:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Awfully unkind to the greek gods as well. Sure, they could be tyrannical and capricious, but their narratives often served as a treatise in consequentialist and virtue ethics, as well. I suppose we may forget (or some of us may never know) that pagan narratives of gods were often cautionary tales, lessons by a bad example. They were conceptualized of as such and written or spoken accordingly accordingly.
This is why pagan heros often struggle against those gods, or chart their own nobler (or baser) course in contrast to the wishes of the gods..why they are described as having done evil things...and echoes of this can be seen in the OT as well, even in the name "Israel". Even by the manufacture of the NT, judeo-christianity had still not doiverced itself entirely from pagan roots, narratives, and themes...nor have christians today.
Sin (and redemption) as conceptualized by christians is remarkably similar to miasma.
This is why pagan heros often struggle against those gods, or chart their own nobler (or baser) course in contrast to the wishes of the gods..why they are described as having done evil things...and echoes of this can be seen in the OT as well, even in the name "Israel". Even by the manufacture of the NT, judeo-christianity had still not doiverced itself entirely from pagan roots, narratives, and themes...nor have christians today.
Sin (and redemption) as conceptualized by christians is remarkably similar to miasma.
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