RE: Indoctrination & Mental Gymnastics
January 12, 2015 at 1:16 pm
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2015 at 1:18 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 12, 2015 at 1:12 pm)Lek Wrote: So you say that obviously intelligent, philosophical men wrote the new testament with the intention of coming up with something that would appeal to to ignorant masses.Seems so. Course, that they were intelligent or "philosophical" doesn't mean they got it right (Hi Stimbo), or that the ignorant masses would have believed them because they were "intelligent and philosophical", or that if they had, they believed them because they were the ignorant masses.
It also seems, in case you missed it, that the farther(Hi again!) we get away from jesusism in time or ideology, the farther(I can do this all day) we progress in science and technology.
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