RE: Why are Paul's writings in the Bible?
October 7, 2023 at 2:27 pm
(This post was last modified: October 7, 2023 at 2:29 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
...and here's fire breathing historicist richard carrier, this year
He does much the same with cargo cults and ned lud as examples.
Quote:I often use the analogy of the “Roswell saucer crash”:https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/23920
What Really Happened: In 1947 a guy found some sticks and tinfoil in the desert.
What Was Immediately Said to Have Happened: That this was debris from an alien spacecraft.
What Was Said to Have Happened within just Thirty Years: An entire flying saucer was recovered, complete with alien bodies that were autopsied by the government.
Here we have the analog sequence of events: the believers maintain the evolved myth (“an entire flying saucer was recovered, complete with alien bodies that were autopsied by the government”), without any doubt, and just repeat it as a given; but the myth started with something else—a real thing, but not the same thing.
He does much the same with cargo cults and ned lud as examples.
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