Quote:Well, your point was that....Their manner of burial is evidence that they believed in life after death. and so, "yes", I am arguing your point.
By saying this?
Quote:The rest go to live happily in the “Gods’ place.”
Quote:I did not assert that no other cultures have similar burial practices to the Egyptians.
In answering your question “How about the other cultures whose burials indicate belief in an afterlife?” I said “There is no such culture, other than the Egyptian!” meaning that there is no other culture believing in afterlife and not that there is no other culture having similar burial practices.
So, we went from "Egyptians do not believe in the afterlife" to "Egyptians are the only culture that believes in the afterlife."
Quote:Care for the dead is not evidence of a belief in afterlife.
No, but burying them with things they will presumably need in the afterlife is evidence of belief in the afterlife.
Quote:Killing of the first born and artificially deforming the skulls of infants were elements of their culture that we cannot understand.
I think you are confusing inability to understand with absence of a wish to emulate. Besides, the killing of the first born was not part of their culture. It is part of mythology that came later.
Quote:We know that the Egyptians, for the last 3.000 years of their history, believed in afterlife because they told us so. For the other cultures with similar burying practices we cannot know.
Yes, we can.
Quote:You, and everyone else of course, say that the Egyptians believed in afterlife but do not know that for the Egyptians it was the dead who lived in the afterlife and not their souls.
You are arguing that Egyptians did not believe in the afterlife whilst saying that they believed the dead lived in the afterlife.
Quote:Can you imagine dead people living after their deaths? No. You cannot! You’ll have to summon such concepts as spirits and souls.
Well, neither spirits nor souls were judged according to Egyptian theology!
So, you are not arguing the absence of an afterlife. You are arguing an absence of souls. Not all cultures that believe in the afterlife believe in spirits and souls. Besides, believing that the dead live in an afterlife kind of promotes the idea that they have some other vessel, as they Egyptians clearly knew that the bodies didn't just up and leave.
Quote:As regards the walls of texts, the title of the thread is “Egyptian funerary texts” and it is about time that you (atheists) learn something about them.
I take it you are learning with us.
