(July 30, 2023 at 2:04 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:(July 30, 2023 at 1:51 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: Not really. You need to learn from a real scholar what the hundreds of books of revelation were all about, and what's up with this one.
Dr. Elaine Pagels, Princeton. A real scholar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0-reoYHKUw
Really? You think I should listen to an hour-and-a-half long video in a foreign language (English) without subtitles?
Well obviously, you're not competent to do anything yourself.
And BTW, yes I do. Then get her books.
She is accepted as the world expert on the subject.
If you can't be bothered to do the work, ... then fuck off.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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