(November 7, 2018 at 9:26 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:He did write about a celestial messiah who encountered evil somewhere between the Earth and the moon, in a cosmic battle.
Same as that "paul" bullshit. Must have been a big idea with Greeks and Hellenized jews. Jesus? Not so much it seems. He was a poser.
That's actually exactly one of Carrier's points ... that it was a commonly circulating meme among Hellenized Jews.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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