(March 12, 2022 at 2:30 am)GrandizerII Wrote: Nope, she's not making the connection as specified in the OP, regardless of the credibility of what she's saying here.
The OP is referring to the horns on the altar as specified in Exodus and elsewhere in the Bible, and then they're pondering the connection from that to bulls of ANE religions. Not horns in general, but the horns that were on those altars.
She did establish the connection between the bull and the El (Yahweh), so why would it then be unexplained that they use bull's horns to represent him on the altar devoted to him (bull god)?
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"
