(November 7, 2012 at 8:04 am)John V Wrote:(November 6, 2012 at 8:15 pm)Gooders1002 Wrote: Only because they forced their novel with the sword until there was enough idiots to accept it as fact. Back in those days I could have forced Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings as fact and today people would believe it as revealed truth. Despite it being complete 100% bullshit and fictitious.Ah. the always popular (and unsupported) "back in those days" argument. Speaking of bullshit...
There's the good example of Macbeth and Hamlet... 400 years later, people still know them.
Of course, no one thinks it's fact, because everyone knows it's fiction. Was developed as fiction and sold to people as fiction.
Religious texts, are developed as .............. (fill in the blank) and sold as fact. Some people buy them and then spread it out... because the text explicitly orders people to spread it out... I wonder what would happen if it didn't specify that so explicitly.