RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
June 23, 2012 at 6:30 pm
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2012 at 6:45 pm by Brian37.)
(June 23, 2012 at 4:42 pm)average Wrote: Jesus was 'invented' by the Greek community of the time, will you all get that? he is a myth, Greek mythology myth. Introduced because the Greeks did not have a son with this new invisible god that had been made up by King Akenartum of Egypt. Jesus is Greek mythology nothing more nothing less
I AGREE, Jesus IS a myth.
The point IS, that it would NOT matter if he did exist. Virgin births do not happen and people do not survive death, much less the naked assertion that a disembodied magical super brain BY ANY NAME started everything.
Claiming Jesus as being the one true god is like claiming Thor made lightening. Gap answers and naked assertions based on the imaginations of ignorant myth will never be a good tool for measuring reality. Making shit up is only a placebo good for our imaginations.
Quote:I really think calling it 'myth' isn't appropriate. Myth implies that none of it is real and just all 100% delusional or however you want to describe it, but I really think there's some 'tangible' elements of philosophy that get missed at first glance
People wonder why I hate the word "philosophy"
Hitler had a "philosophy" in "pure race". Slapping such a dangerous and ambiguous word such as "philosophy" is absurd and deadly. Christianity is not a philosophy, it is a club full of people who have the same super hero, and even their fans cant agree on what that super hero wants.
What you are trying to say is that real people and real places mentioned in the bible existed. YES, but that did not make the bible a science textbook.
And you are saying "there are some nice stories in that book" so "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water"
Islam has the "pillars" which advocate positive things.
Buddhism has the "Noble Truths"
And YES, the bible has nice stories too.
But none of them make the religions true.
"The New Atheism" a book by Victor Stinger addresses this fallacy of "specialness of label". Our morals are, and have always been evolutionary and while a religion may say some "good" things as Christopher Hitchens said "Name me one good thing said, or good deed done, a believer could do, that an atheist could not".
Christianity and Islam and Hebrews and Hindus, ARE NOT myths in the sense that people believe them and have had a history of passing their stories down. BUT THEY ARE ALL MYTHS in terms of their incantations, prayers, traditions and deities. Our imaginations are far to often passed off to the next generation as fact.