(April 6, 2012 at 3:01 pm)Calypso Wrote: This is for an English class, being that there aren't too many...if any I'm not really sure people who share my views in that class it's kinda hard getting ideas from people in there.
Could always argue for the bible as symbolic literature.
Or that Jesus of the New Testament fits in the Hero Tradition of Oedipus, Mithras, and Horus. That Jesus' fictional account was clearly written with direct influence from the earlier legends and mythology of the period and place.
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire
"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire