(July 2, 2015 at 1:37 am)Huggy74 Wrote:(July 1, 2015 at 11:25 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Look at that Huggy! You found an actual fact. However, and this is my point, the medieval church included the unicorn in their bestiaries on the basis of that mistranslation. It's only during more critical translations and readings during the Renaissance and later, that the unicorn was discarded. Modern cirtical analysis shows the Bible to be anything but historically accurate or divinely inspired. Why having accepted the unicorn mistranslation don't you apply your brain to the rest of the "holy" book?
It's not a mistraslation, it's a LATIN word not english. for instance the latin name for the Indian rhinoceros is "Rhinoceros Unicornis", there are other latin words found in the old testament e.g. "Lucifer".
Then why were unicorns, not rhinoceruses, depicted in Christian art? The Latin was clearly mistranslated into the English of the time.
"Faith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is like when you trust yourself to the water. You don't grab hold of the water when you swim, because if you do you will become stiff and tight in the water, and sink. You have to relax, and the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging, and holding on. In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
Alan Watts
Alan Watts
