(March 25, 2021 at 5:38 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Its certainly not in doubt that people used to believe the things their religions told them - and, ofc, some still do. Even things which you don't believe today and think are silly.
These religions are silly, news at ten. My favorite is the "who but a god could make and tame a dragon" line in magic book. That argument pretty much only works on people who believe in dragons, huh?
I would say that it is a guarantee that most believers believed what the tanakh told them (***), starting from Genesis and onwards. Because if you are going to claim that that is a metaphor, people are going to ask, "Well who made all this stuff and why are we on this terrible planet?".
At which point of the tanakh does it switch to fairy tale mode to reality mode?
***I'm talking long ago, before modern science came along, which I would say started up somewhere in 1700. It was in the 1800 that it became clear to many scientists that the Earth is ancient, in the tens of millions of years old. Some estimated to 100 million y.
"who but a god could make and tame a dragon"
==Where does it say that?
--Ferrocyanide
