Undeceived Wrote:Heracles is nothing special. He is a plot device to link the gods to the people. Jesus was man for a purpose—he had to be human to save mankind from their sin.
Unless you can prove that Jesus had to be human to save mankind, this is special pleading at its finest.
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