(April 2, 2021 at 11:20 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Yes, I know that's what you were saying, I'm suggesting that you've got that wrong.
Isaiah, for example, doesn't pepper in real places or people or events to lend the false appearance of credibility. The real places people and events were there, exile was on the horizon. That's why it was credible. The prophets of the ot were writing social and political commentary as believers - not engaging in some vast conspiracy to fool a reader hundreds of years into the future.
You keep missing my point. If one is writing a story, or movie script, or even starting a cult, and you want attention for it to give it appeal, even if you truely believe that shit, it is going to motivate you to write the story in retrofit it with real people and real places.
We cannot crawl into the minds of the writers and determin their motivation. That is not what I mean by "false sense of credibility". Knowingly or unwittingly, the goal of the writers was to attract people to the stories.
"False sense of credibility" can include fooling onself. One can truely believe a falsehood and it still can be false at the same time.
L Ron Hubbard started a religion, but it took others buying his garbage and perpetuating it as a reality for it to grow to what it is today. L Ron Hubbard employed tactics of psudo science and mythology of prior religious motifs to appeal to others.
The Jesus mythology was merely simply another competition between religions. Like Coke Vs Pepsi. Soda is real for sure, but it doesn't mean soda can magically turn you into a frog. It doesn't matter if someone can point out that Coke is real, or it's CEO who started the company was a real person, people writing about that Company after the fact would not get away with trying to claim Coke has magic powers.
