(October 22, 2012 at 2:45 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:Muslims claim that Mohammed is real so why are you not a Muslim?
Hey, muslims claim that mohammed flew up to heaven, too. And he went jesus one better by taking his fucking horse with him.
There is nothing new under the sun. What allows myth to fester falsely as fact is people use details to distract that they got their ideas from prior cutural memes.
Assention motif also existed in Egypt with Horus. Horus also was seen as a divine child, and they also had the trinity in judgment of the dead with Ra(the sun god) and Osirus and Horus sitting in judgment of humans.
First people motifs and flood motifs existed prior to the hebrews in the Caanites lead by the head god El as part of the divine family in which Yahweh(sounds familure doesn't it) was merely a lesser god under the head god El as part of the divine family.
We find in the Ugartic Texts the same quote as the OT ("Let us make them in our immage) which got adapted by the Hebrews and rewritten.
Gelgimesh has a flood story much older than the early Hebrew writings.
The only out theists of all three try to argue is stupid si fi crap where satan took a time machine back in time to plant those motifs on humans to confuse them.
Gods do not exist and only our ability to buy and sell our human invented superstitions is the real reality.
The Hebrews were not even the first to claim a monotheistic "one true god". Both the single attempt by Akonaton(sp), whose one rule attempt to make Ra the only god, got shot down after he died, and the Zoroastrians were also a much older attempt at a monotheistic god.
The truth of humanity is we love our myths, but volcanos were never gods, the polytheistic gods were never real, and the monotheistic gods of today are still all the same product of human ignorance and credulity. It still boils down to if you want to believe something bad enough, you will.
