nemesis wrote:
> Patrick Elliott <sel### [at] npgcablecom> wrote:
>> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> Unfortunately, for some really odd reason, a lot of people that "do"
>> read the original texts, compare them with other faiths, and study the
>> complex histories behind them, kind of end up... a lot less religious.
>> Its almost as if "reading" any other books makes the whole thing look
>> absurd and silly, or something...
> 
> It just shows a different interpretation of similar events many peoples
> experienced in the old ages.
> 
No its not. If you knew a damn thing about them, and not just the "all 
faiths are the same" BS some churchs have been bandying about recently, 
it would be obvious that many of them are so fracking contradictory that 
you **can't** say that they are all the same, or talking about the same 
supposed events. No, each "tribe" separate, sometimes by so much that 
they rarely ever met, came up with different explanations, and other 
"later" tribes, who where bigger, more mobile, and usually more 
aggressive, mashed them all together to make up "new" ones. To claim 
otherwise shows a gross misunderstanding of the historical dates when 
various "religions" appeared, and where. You might as well try to argue 
than Scientology was based on Greek Mythology, for all that your claim 
that various "ancient" faiths where all *different interpretation* of 
the Christian faith. Well, in your case, you might be right, but for the 
wrong reasons, the Hebrew faith is a mish mash of stuff from all those 
"other" earlier religions, which it replaced, while throwing out parts 
it couldn't accept, and modern Christianity, a lot of *religious 
scholars* as well as historians, argue was Judaism mashed together with 
everything else available at the time, from more eastern mythology 
(Mithras), to Egyption myths, to Greek, to, you name it. Yeah, your 
right, Tolkien is probably the best example. A completely made up book 
of gibberish, which works as a pretty decent story, but is a result of 
cramming together hundreds of sources, none of which ever intended any 
of their mythologies to become part of a story that replaced them all in 
the minds of modern man. Now, if you can just get past using it as 
analogy and comprehend the *real* consequences of what that actually 
means...

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