RE: Disproving Odin - An Experiment in arguing with a theist with Theist logic
March 11, 2018 at 3:41 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2018 at 3:55 pm by I_am_not_mafia.)
(March 11, 2018 at 3:13 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(March 11, 2018 at 9:00 am)Mathilda Wrote: But all you have done is traced the evolution of a language yet somehow this means that 'Odin is derived from Pagan Babylonian religion'?
Are you serious Mathilda? It stands to reason as the language changes the names for the gods would change also...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin
Quote:Odin was known in Old English as Wōden, in Old Saxon as Wōdan, and in Old High German as Wuotan or Wōtan, all stemming from the reconstructed Proto-Germanic theonym *wōđanaz.
You may think that it stands to reason, but that's not the same thing as stating for sure that Odin came from Pagan Baylonian religions. After all, with all those different cultures, there may well have been different religions that died out and were replaced with something entirely new, or imported from another country.
For example take England. The English language has a very long history but there have been multiple religions in England while the language has evolved, including the late arrival of Christianity. And if right wing nuts are to be believed then this is to be pushed out by Islam.
So by your logic Jesus was derived from Odin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English
