RE: Was Jesus the Bastard Son of a Menstruate and Promiscuous Woman from 100 BCE?
April 10, 2012 at 2:48 pm
Sciwoman Wrote:I would think that a game of Telephone would show the reliability of oral tradition. If you can't get a sentence across a room without it morphing almost out of recognition, how can you expect a story passed down for hundreds of years to be remotely similar to the original tale?
I'm guessing they would get around this by saying that god guided the process. I had someone use that answer when I asked them about the picking and choosing of which books went into the bible.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
