hylidae

Sounds like an idea for a book: The Myth Makers... this book could show the relationship between such things as low cognitive complexity, the authoritarian personality, lack of intellectual curiosity, etc., and myth making.

DrJim

No, that was the trinity, The Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, and Ritchie Valens, who were also all born in Kenya.

Cege

That's Mr Archangel Michael, to you!

DCHindley

Mr Archangel Michael,

You are named after a port city on the White Sea in Russia? Interesting.

I detect hostility ... perhaps on account of the pointlessness of my points. The point of this pointlessness is this: Whether one wants Jesus to be, or not to be, the human mind can make it be.

Almost all the posts on FRDB sound like senseless gibberish to me. No matter how tortured the reasoning, the facts oddly interpreted, or methods misused, the denizens of this board will get what they want.

On the other hand, I suppose the kinds of posts I post here sound like gibberish to many. All those pesky facts and nuanced allusions to early Christian, Jewish and Roman literature which few if any have bothered to scan much less read, all those technical details and talk about culture and historical events, get in the way of the raw emotions that drive apologists of all stripes.

If it doesn't explain things away, it doesn't merit response. Yet I am just like most of you. I have a secular job, wife, 2 kids, nice house with big fat mortgage, a car, a mini van, an SUV, and a pickup truck, 15 guns, backyard shed, no retirement savings to speak of, and a college degree.

I just found the subject interesting enough to read a lot of the source materials, most all of it in translation, although I did take NT Greek to satisfy a language requirement in college. I don't know Hebrew or pretend to. I can't read Syriac. However, I do know my limitations and defer to the expertise of specialists. Experts establish specific facts about language, cultures and history. They also interpret them to create explanatory narratives. I don't always buy their interpretations. "Just the facts, ma'am."

But I digress ... (I think I used to work for the shaggy old dude in the "You didn't send Bob to the presentation, did you?" commercial. I learned everything I know about my profession from him. Thank you, Bob Moredock in Pontiac Michigan - BTW, he actually did use to say that, alot).

DCH