RE: Whats even attractive about Christianity anyway that people want to stay in ignorance
March 8, 2012 at 9:20 am
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2012 at 9:21 am by Cyberman.)
Let's just for a moment entertain the thought that Leo and Virgo actually do represent Mary and Jesus and all that other stuff. How about the other eighty-six officially recognised constellations, forty-six of which were drawn up by Ptolemy in 1400 CE? What or who do they represent in this tortuous symbolism? There is a virgin and a lion in the sky in exactly the same way that there is a telescope (Telescopium), various components of a ship (poop deck (Puppis), keel (Carina) and sails (Vela), all part of the now-obsolete Argo Navis), a chisel (Caelum), an arrow (Sagitta), a compass (Circinus), a hairstyle (Coma Berenices), a hunter (Orion of course), big and little dogs (Canis Major and Minor), a clock (Horologium), a fly (Musca) - I could go on. My personal favourite has got to be Camelopardalis, the Giraffe.
Even if we limit it to just the Zodiacal family, within which the Sun and planets appear to be 'housed' throughout the course of a year (and bear in mind the boundaries of all constellations were not fixed until 1930) we're still left with such unBiblical oddities as Libra the scales, Cancer the crab, Sagittarius the Archer - depicted as a centaur - Aquarius the Water Carrier, Ophiucus the Serpent Bearer and so on. I'm not even going to complicate the picture further with such details as the observed habits of the planets occasionally to 'visit' signs outside the Zodiac.
What you are engaged in is known as the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy: you've painted your target around the data points that you want to fit your picture, then claimed a bullseye.
Even if we limit it to just the Zodiacal family, within which the Sun and planets appear to be 'housed' throughout the course of a year (and bear in mind the boundaries of all constellations were not fixed until 1930) we're still left with such unBiblical oddities as Libra the scales, Cancer the crab, Sagittarius the Archer - depicted as a centaur - Aquarius the Water Carrier, Ophiucus the Serpent Bearer and so on. I'm not even going to complicate the picture further with such details as the observed habits of the planets occasionally to 'visit' signs outside the Zodiac.
What you are engaged in is known as the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy: you've painted your target around the data points that you want to fit your picture, then claimed a bullseye.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
