RE: Why Middle East?
April 21, 2012 at 3:56 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2012 at 4:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Way to dismiss the cultural and historical experience of two entire continents worth of peoples in service of your own fairy tales with one wave of the hand. 
For some reason or another I don't think that they would agree with you. Nor do I think that "academia" (I know how much you love them) feels that your explanation of their beliefs is a very compelling one. Ethnocentric anthropolgy ftl. Good thing the rest of us have moved past what you seem to be so mired in, or we wouldn't have such a colorful (and well demonstrated) picture of the origins of our beliefs. We'd still be stuck two centuries back, trying to shoehorn every myth we came across into our own favorite myth structures (amusingly they always seem to be part of our own heritage).
For some reason or another I don't think that they would agree with you. Nor do I think that "academia" (I know how much you love them) feels that your explanation of their beliefs is a very compelling one. Ethnocentric anthropolgy ftl. Good thing the rest of us have moved past what you seem to be so mired in, or we wouldn't have such a colorful (and well demonstrated) picture of the origins of our beliefs. We'd still be stuck two centuries back, trying to shoehorn every myth we came across into our own favorite myth structures (amusingly they always seem to be part of our own heritage).
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