(January 20, 2010 at 12:38 am)chatpilot Wrote: I have that book but I don't endorse it. Just stating that she pretty much states the same things about how some of the Christian myths were stolen from pre-christian beliefs based on astrology etc. It's a good read trust me. As with anything you must learn to accept what you can verify and reject the rest. Everyone has some kernel of knowledge to contribute no matter how small or apparently insignificant it might seem. Besides I don't judge anything based on the opinion of so called "experts or scholars" till I have had the opportunity to read it myself. It's like movies for instance, so called movie critics or even your best friend may hate a film and say how it sucks and it's not worth your time. But when you see it you might actually enjoy the film regardless of your friends opinion.
I don't read non-fiction for non-facts
Richard Carrier said (a lot more humorously) of Archya's book (paraphrased):
"You keep having to go and find the sources used in the book because very few are listed and even less are true and when they listed are it's done in a way that seems almost designed to make them hard to track down... If your reading a book and you have to go through this process to fact check it you might as well write a book yourself about it, you're basically the one who has done all the research"
Oh, and an opinion on a fictional movie is in no way comparable to truth claims made about events in history, as you well know.
Anyway, it seems LEDO is taking a much more intellectually honest approach to the subject, rather than intentionally telling blatant lies about events in ancient ancient religious texts just to support a Astrological hypothesis like that fraud Acharya, that's why I'm going to buy his book
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