RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
August 28, 2012 at 8:55 pm
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2012 at 8:57 pm by Cyberman.)
Quote:Some examples of the criteria used by professional historians include giving more significance to data from:
1) multiple, independent sources
2) enemy attestation
3) principle of embarrassment
4) eyewitness testimony
5) early testimony
As I've pointed out before, most of these criteria can be used to verify the resurrection of Snow White. Viz:
Enemy attestation:
The Wicked Queen wanted Snow White dead and gave her the poisoned apple to do the job. She knew Snow White was dead and she later knew that she'd been resurrected. Why would the Wicked Queen admit to something so damaging if it were not true?
Principle of embarrassment:
How about the Magic Mirror, which had the powers of speech and prophecy, not to mention the inability to lie? What a ridiculously embarrassing idea! Yet there it is, giving testimony to Snow White's resurrection.
Eyewitness testimony:
We've got the personal eyewitness testimony of the Handsome Prince, Happy, Sleepy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Bashful, Doc and Dopey, all of whom saw the girl dead and then rise up again.
Early testimony:
The Snow White story, like all true 'fairy tales', have astonishingly ancient origins. In many cases, they likely stretch back to oral traditions that are as old as, if not actually predate, anything in the bible. The Brothers Grimm and Disney versions are the nice, fluffy kid-friendly versions of tales originally filled with more blood, gore, sex and violence than anything Hollywood ever dreamed up.
There you go; significant data to chew over.
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.'