Reply to Why believe in god?

Forum Index » Religion

Reply to "Why believe in god?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
That's the best you can do?  What about Mithras the Persian god born on Dec 25?  and Osiris, who rose from the death?

As for sun/son, what about red/reed -- some say Moses actually crossed the very shallow Reed sea and people confused it with Red, but that would only work in English -- but even [b]English takes us back a few centuries[/b], when some of the myths could have been generated.[/quote]

Different PP here. This gets my vote for "most ludicrous" because of the humongous math fail.

So, um, the "myth" that Moses crossed the Red Sea was created by English speakers a few centuries ago, you say? OK, let's establish that English as we know it was created very gradually in the centuries after the Norman Conquest, evolving through Chaucer and Shakespeare with a great vowel change along the way (Pirate English is the old vowels.) So you could plausibly say that English is "several centuries" old.

Even so, this can't possibly explain a story that's been circulating for several thousand years.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics