RE: Evidence God Exists
November 11, 2011 at 2:13 pm
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2011 at 2:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Euhemerism? Sure, some mythologies are most likely embellished ancestor tales. This group is certainly not inclusive of all myth.
As far as agricultural societies, again, I don't know where you get your information but agricultural societies provided the necessary stability for organized systems of religion (and the free time to build temples etc). That they came out of the field with beliefs is obvious, but what happened to those beliefs when they did is profound. Find many temple complexes built by nomadic hunter-gatherers?
The virgin mary is definitely not the plump little booby doll used as a fertility idol. The only similarity is that they are both (ostensibly) female. WTF?
You know who Ra actually was, based on the Book of the Dead............?
These things haven't degenerated into fairy tales, they are fairy tales.
We're probably not disagreeing as wildly as it seems. I agree that myth can have a basis in reality. That doesn't mean that myth must have a basis in reality. Our ancestors were competent storytellers, as capable of spinning a fictional narrative as ourselves. Again, things like Mormonism, Scientology, and Cargo Cults are left woefully out of the loop by such a singular depiction of origins. One could ask "what is the origin of myth" in the general, but the minute we start discussing a particular myth the question becomes "what are the origins", plural.
As far as agricultural societies, again, I don't know where you get your information but agricultural societies provided the necessary stability for organized systems of religion (and the free time to build temples etc). That they came out of the field with beliefs is obvious, but what happened to those beliefs when they did is profound. Find many temple complexes built by nomadic hunter-gatherers?
The virgin mary is definitely not the plump little booby doll used as a fertility idol. The only similarity is that they are both (ostensibly) female. WTF?
You know who Ra actually was, based on the Book of the Dead............?
These things haven't degenerated into fairy tales, they are fairy tales.
We're probably not disagreeing as wildly as it seems. I agree that myth can have a basis in reality. That doesn't mean that myth must have a basis in reality. Our ancestors were competent storytellers, as capable of spinning a fictional narrative as ourselves. Again, things like Mormonism, Scientology, and Cargo Cults are left woefully out of the loop by such a singular depiction of origins. One could ask "what is the origin of myth" in the general, but the minute we start discussing a particular myth the question becomes "what are the origins", plural.
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