(January 31, 2013 at 11:53 am)Confused Ape Wrote:(January 31, 2013 at 11:17 am)Brian37 Wrote: Still, everyone likes to argue the history of religion. It is still all made up bullshit. There is no "savior" anything. Jews still claim that their "savior" hasn't come yet. Big deal, they stole their characters and motifs from prior pollytheism. Humans make up gods and that is all that is going on. Getting stuck on one tradition or on details is silly. It still amounts to defending a comic book fan club.
How is pointing out that Christianity got it's key beliefs from other belief systems defending a comic book fan club?
The reason I'm an atheist is because I've had an interest in mythology and other religions since I was about 8 years old. It didn't take long to get the idea that Christianity wasn't unique so it was impossible for me to believe that the Christian religion was THE TRUTH.
Ok, take a copy of Harry Potter, or say a Batman comic book. swap page of those fictions with reading pages of any holy book. Every time you hit a fantastic claim or fantastic image, of either highlight it. It becomes quite clear very quickly that both are fiction.
I refuse to call it myth, because myth is simply another word for fiction, and since comic books are fiction, I am going to call holy books comic books and I am going to call those fans, fans of comic books.
Just like it would be fiction to say "Thor makes lightening".
