RE: Can you make a God claim?
January 10, 2015 at 10:47 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2015 at 11:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 10, 2015 at 10:35 pm)Grasshopper Wrote:Because he wasn't a moral examplar or lawgiver? Quite the opposite. He was a shameful disgrace of a man by their cultures standards, but also the ideal of a warrior (which was very highly valued). Might have had something to do with expressing the duality of man, or the foolishness of judging the man before you by his everyday life...rather than his example in combat. A flawed and ultimately mortal character (the norse gods die in the end, and so do we - the "good guys" lose). Ultimately, we'll never really know, because christian civ rewrote significant portions of this narrative and they weren't even trying to hide it (or weren't half as clever as they thought themselves to be)...and so it, like many other pagan narratives (and for the same reason, no less) is unreliable. The norse had a different god-concept, almost nothing translates with judeo-christian concepts...and they seem to have used their gods a different way than you hope to use yours. Of course....Thor also didn't tell people not to plunder and loot for the same reason that your god failed in this (and many other regards) because he isn't real, and exists only as a reflection of the culture that created him (insomuch as your predecessors left that intact - always uneasy with other peoples fairy tales, if you ask me, demonstrating the current of self-doubt that has always been with the christian faith). To be fair to the civ though (the norse civ - fuck yall)...they did more trading and farming than plundering and looting -by far. The main reason history remembers them as plunderers and looters primarily is because they stole from/killed christians....more specifically christian churches and monastaries- and you fellas are some whiny sons-a-bitches when the shoe is on the other foot.And why didn't he tell the vikings not to plunder and loot?
Any more questions regarding the pantheons of others relative to your own?
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