RE: Plausibility of ancient extraterrestrials
July 18, 2023 at 1:12 am
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2023 at 1:13 am by Fake Messiah.)
(July 18, 2023 at 12:30 am)Sicnoo0 Wrote: I think Biglino's translation can be assessed on its own merits. The fact that he likes von Daniken doesn't impact whether or not his translation is accurate
Let's just say that anyone who considers Daniken to be a legit intellectual is probably stupid or a fraud. So all it proves is that the Bible can be interpreted in as many ways as there are people who read it, like if you want to say that god and is an alien then they are aliens. And that's how it goes with the Bible and other texts about gods and supernatural beings - since it is a fairytale and these beings are not explained, they can be anything. Just take the star of Bethlehem - so far people have claimed it to be Hailey comet, an alien spaceship, special conjunction of planets, Krishna, and so on, and none of these explanations are wrong because the star of Bethlehem is a magical thing and thus can be anything or nothing at all.
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"
