(February 1, 2015 at 11:01 am)Rhythm Wrote: Sure, I'd be willing to provide a massive list of sacrifical gods, crucifixions, and general nuttery from every corner of the globe. Count me in. I'm sure none will hook you as much as your favorite brand of torture pron...but at least I'll get to expose you to a wider selection from which you might satisfy your fetish. It's not only an older narrative - it's not even geographically limited. People were telling this story oceans apart with no contact - it clearly has appeal to us.
The part that humans do not want to face is that independent tropes and memes that have similarities does not make god real, or even scientifically required as a gap answer.
The god/s of Abraham were not original or the first claims of humans. The god/s of Abraham are simply spinnoffs of prior and surrounding religions.
Humans in polytheism and monotheism independently came up with similar stories. That does not make the god of Abraham the one true god. It merely means, the fans, after the fact, are picking an arbitrary starting point of our existence and ignorantly claiming they invented humanity.
It is retrofitting after the fact. There are prior memes in older polytheism that were merely adapted by Abrahamic monotheism. Humans like the idea of having a super hero, be it many gods or one god. But none of them are real.
Watch the entire new Cosmos series, with Neil Degresse Tyson. He explains our collective species ignorance which lead to many similar independent memes.
