Professor Dorsey Armstrong is a very smart person but it's hard not to see that she is being ridiculous on how she reasons real King Arthur actually existed, you can listen to her
She says that she believes that King Arthur was a real person but he wasn't called Arthur, he certainly wasn't a king, he didn't live in Camelot and Avalon around round table, he didn't have a shiny armor, he didn't have twelve knights and Merlin (to which she says were all made up) I mean what kind of an oxymoron is that? She even says that most historians consider King Arthur to be just a fantasy.
So by her logic you can make any fictional person could have existed, like Conan The Barbarian: he was based on Hercules and did Hercules really exist? Well, he did, but he wasn't called Hercules and he was not son of a god and he did not have superhuman strength and he did non meet Atlas and held heavens, he certainly did not kill Hydra, but rather there was some guy in ancient Greece who was very strong and brave. So some guy existed on which Hercules was based on and then Conan was based on Hercules and ditto Conan The Barbarian existed.
I mean one thing is when you have some legends around real people like Lincoln and his cherry tree, but the other is when somebody is completely made up.
She says that she believes that King Arthur was a real person but he wasn't called Arthur, he certainly wasn't a king, he didn't live in Camelot and Avalon around round table, he didn't have a shiny armor, he didn't have twelve knights and Merlin (to which she says were all made up) I mean what kind of an oxymoron is that? She even says that most historians consider King Arthur to be just a fantasy.
So by her logic you can make any fictional person could have existed, like Conan The Barbarian: he was based on Hercules and did Hercules really exist? Well, he did, but he wasn't called Hercules and he was not son of a god and he did not have superhuman strength and he did non meet Atlas and held heavens, he certainly did not kill Hydra, but rather there was some guy in ancient Greece who was very strong and brave. So some guy existed on which Hercules was based on and then Conan was based on Hercules and ditto Conan The Barbarian existed.
I mean one thing is when you have some legends around real people like Lincoln and his cherry tree, but the other is when somebody is completely made up.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
