RE: Why did god create evil?
December 3, 2011 at 9:44 am
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2011 at 10:05 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm arguing against evidence? Wow, and here I was thinking that I was arguing against your interpretation and the conclusions you drew from it.
My culture? If you're referring to say, the christian tradition.....that was forced upon "my culture" through military and political pressure, backed up by domestic coercion and torture (to the tune of about 1,000 years worth). Ironic, since they already believed in a "soul" though definitely not the christian version. Nothing about the home grown beliefs of any culture I'm descended from have anything to do with Egypt, Greece, Rome, or Christianity. Nor does the idea of a "soul" find it's only refuge in any of these traditions, as we've been preparing ourselves for the afterlife for more than 30,000 years and across the entire globe. Were the egyptians teaching people in the paleolithic dualism? That's quite the stretch. The near east has tons of history, but it doesn't have any exclusivity on the past. It's not as though nothing was happening in the americas, australia, northern europe, the far east, south africa, or the pacific islands. Again, limit your conclusions to what your evidence can support. I obviously have doubts as to just how strong your evidence is(which appears to be nothing more than a translation of a text that is in all likelihood 100% myth), but I've been going forward on the assumption that you're correct (even though our current understanding of egypt says that you're not). Even with this provisional concession you've been unable to justify the giant (global) brush that you've used to paint all religions of every people as somehow a ripoff of Egyptian thought (let alone your conclusion regarding just what egyptian thought was, and what it was based upon). We hear this shit from christians all the time about their favorite myths as well. Ask Statler what he thinks, lol. I've been willing to offer you more compromise than you'll get if you try to publish your paper anywhere but a blog, and if you want to do that, you'll need more than what you've shown us.
My culture? If you're referring to say, the christian tradition.....that was forced upon "my culture" through military and political pressure, backed up by domestic coercion and torture (to the tune of about 1,000 years worth). Ironic, since they already believed in a "soul" though definitely not the christian version. Nothing about the home grown beliefs of any culture I'm descended from have anything to do with Egypt, Greece, Rome, or Christianity. Nor does the idea of a "soul" find it's only refuge in any of these traditions, as we've been preparing ourselves for the afterlife for more than 30,000 years and across the entire globe. Were the egyptians teaching people in the paleolithic dualism? That's quite the stretch. The near east has tons of history, but it doesn't have any exclusivity on the past. It's not as though nothing was happening in the americas, australia, northern europe, the far east, south africa, or the pacific islands. Again, limit your conclusions to what your evidence can support. I obviously have doubts as to just how strong your evidence is(which appears to be nothing more than a translation of a text that is in all likelihood 100% myth), but I've been going forward on the assumption that you're correct (even though our current understanding of egypt says that you're not). Even with this provisional concession you've been unable to justify the giant (global) brush that you've used to paint all religions of every people as somehow a ripoff of Egyptian thought (let alone your conclusion regarding just what egyptian thought was, and what it was based upon). We hear this shit from christians all the time about their favorite myths as well. Ask Statler what he thinks, lol. I've been willing to offer you more compromise than you'll get if you try to publish your paper anywhere but a blog, and if you want to do that, you'll need more than what you've shown us.
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