RE: evilbible.com
January 29, 2012 at 2:54 am
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2012 at 3:04 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Imma break it down for you.
Bible mentions a place
(place exists)
Believer harps on about historical accuracy, praise be to god, etc.
Dracula mentions a place (London)
(London Exists)
No one calls Dracula history, no one praises Vlad.
You don't have anything to show for god or miracles (and really that's the meat of the whole thing isn't it, kind of a shame), so instead, you'd like to show us that the tax roll in verse so and so chapter such and such was accurate. No one cares. All fiction leverages elements of non-fiction...that's what makes it compelling, relevant, and workable.
If I were to ask you why Dracula seems to be so accurate (with regards to history, ignoring the vampire entirely) what would you say? Would whatever you say give any weight to the notion of flesh and blood vampires?
People exist, places exist, the middle east has a history. None of this is in doubt, no one questions these three claims. All of the historical facts you can dredge up will only verify one of those three very well substantiated claims. At no point does knowing the garbage pickup day on April 5th 400bc lend the narrator of these stories any credibility whatsoever when they start talking about magic. At no point is a line drawn between a ruin and a god. Unless, of course, you don't mind lending all narrators this level of trust, attaching every god to their ruin. You obviously don't do this except in the case of your own favorite story, but when you can understand why Dracula is not a historical document, you will understand perfectly why the bible is no such thing either.
Bible mentions a place
(place exists)
Believer harps on about historical accuracy, praise be to god, etc.
Dracula mentions a place (London)
(London Exists)
No one calls Dracula history, no one praises Vlad.
You don't have anything to show for god or miracles (and really that's the meat of the whole thing isn't it, kind of a shame), so instead, you'd like to show us that the tax roll in verse so and so chapter such and such was accurate. No one cares. All fiction leverages elements of non-fiction...that's what makes it compelling, relevant, and workable.
If I were to ask you why Dracula seems to be so accurate (with regards to history, ignoring the vampire entirely) what would you say? Would whatever you say give any weight to the notion of flesh and blood vampires?
People exist, places exist, the middle east has a history. None of this is in doubt, no one questions these three claims. All of the historical facts you can dredge up will only verify one of those three very well substantiated claims. At no point does knowing the garbage pickup day on April 5th 400bc lend the narrator of these stories any credibility whatsoever when they start talking about magic. At no point is a line drawn between a ruin and a god. Unless, of course, you don't mind lending all narrators this level of trust, attaching every god to their ruin. You obviously don't do this except in the case of your own favorite story, but when you can understand why Dracula is not a historical document, you will understand perfectly why the bible is no such thing either.
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