RE: Why did god create evil?
November 30, 2011 at 2:25 am
(This post was last modified: November 30, 2011 at 2:33 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Perhaps they didn't all stand for the same thing specifically. You keep going on as though your assumption is proof of your assumption. It is not. Granted, it's more likely than a theistic interpretation of Odin as an actual god that exists in reality, for example. More likely than bullshit still isn't equivalent to true. People say that this or that god was in control of the rain, and caused the tides to come in or the crops to grow or whatever. I'll go ahead and take their word that they actually believed this to be the case, that they were explaining physical reality in a narrative that is now mythology. It may be that there was a concerted and forced interbreeding effort across otherwise unrelated societies, and that yet older myths than the ones we have available to us have their basis in this. There just isn't anything solid enough to call this hypothesis a fact. It also does not take into account that we know for fact that human beings have invented religions whole cloth, out of nothing but thin air. No one was raping neanderthals when cargo cults and scientology were born.
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