RE: The First Century Void
June 27, 2017 at 11:59 pm
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2017 at 12:13 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Yeah, I know, you've all thought that, throughout all time.
"My myths aren't myths...those guys aren't talking about my religion being based on silly myths and the people who create and sell them"
They were. Here's an excerpt from a summary of a body of work in hindu philosphy, espousing a position that is much older than the christian faith.
I can't add anything to it, RR. They seemed to know what everyone else at the time knew - ignorant believing rabble excluded. They seemed to know what Carrier, for example, goes to great lengths to express, what we had to rediscover in the 18th century after that little christian crackdown on heretics that forms the backdrop of christian establishment and history finally ended; as the bickering factions of christ strangled each other to death - and in so doing lost the power to reliably punish people for resuming work on the mythicist position, lol.
Such, is the silence, of the mythicist position. That silence -only- existed during the time of the greatest control and greatest atrocities of the christian faith. The mythicist position had to be actively stamped out by the early church. They took to the task with zeal.
"My myths aren't myths...those guys aren't talking about my religion being based on silly myths and the people who create and sell them"
They were. Here's an excerpt from a summary of a body of work in hindu philosphy, espousing a position that is much older than the christian faith.
Quote:There is no other world other than this;
There is no heaven and no hell;
The realm of Shiva and like regions,
are invented by stupid imposters.
I can't add anything to it, RR. They seemed to know what everyone else at the time knew - ignorant believing rabble excluded. They seemed to know what Carrier, for example, goes to great lengths to express, what we had to rediscover in the 18th century after that little christian crackdown on heretics that forms the backdrop of christian establishment and history finally ended; as the bickering factions of christ strangled each other to death - and in so doing lost the power to reliably punish people for resuming work on the mythicist position, lol.
Such, is the silence, of the mythicist position. That silence -only- existed during the time of the greatest control and greatest atrocities of the christian faith. The mythicist position had to be actively stamped out by the early church. They took to the task with zeal.
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