RE: [Quranic Reflection]: Magic
December 29, 2019 at 9:37 am
(This post was last modified: December 29, 2019 at 10:00 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 29, 2019 at 4:25 am)jbob40919 Wrote: I cannot remember if it was Solomon who consulted with witches..black magic!
Solomon was a witch. Or so the story goes.
Anywho, Atlas, magic book is recounting their version of a story in old magic book, wherein moses throws down what's in his hand, and it turns into an even more powerful bit of magic that eats the others. This story was explicitly derived from egyptian mythology (as a polemic against egyptian mythology). It's of pre-roman origin. It's also a wonderful example of precisely what I just explained to you. Their magic is bullshit, our bullshit is magic.
Back when people still openly believed in magic, any given religion had to have the greater magic than it's competitors. Imagine if McDonalds ran advertising that went- "Big Macs, almost as good as Whoppers!". Can't see it, can you?
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