Why do Christians recognize Greek mythology as pure symbolism…?
but can’t recognize that the Bible is the same?
Just using Greek mythology as an example. Any other religion’s tales can be inserted here.
I was thinking about this while watching "The Clash of the Gods" (my new favorite History Channel show ^_^)… and while I was watching the segment on Heracles (Greece’s condemned and heroic "Jesus" figure) I started thinking about the morals implanted in mythology and how the tales of Greek and Roman mythology are just as fantastically fabricated as those of the Bible.
There has been no proof of the existence of Odysseus, so Christians cast his story off as farfetched and fake… and there is no proof of Jesus Christ, and his stories are JUST AS ludicrous as Greek’s heroes, and yet religious folks so openly welcome these stories as fact?
When we think about Hades…Greek’s other-worldly afterlife… we are presented with a dismal and unfortunate existence: an eternity of floating aimlessly in a sort of purposeless purgatory…
and we compare it to Christian afterlife, a black and white Good and Bad place. The Good place is MUCH better than Hades, and the Bad place is MUCH worse.
So, it would be obvious to follow the Christian lifestyle over the Ancient Greek religion to not only avoid the Christian Hell but to make it to the fantastic and beautiful Christian Heaven.
Isn’t it obvious that it’s all such complete bullsh–t? A fabrication of crazy fables to try and make us behave, just as the Greeks did? Why believe Christianity and not Ancient Greek mythology? There is just as much proof for one as the other!
Fireball, your answers never make any sense to me.
I know that Zeus is real because I feel it in my heart >_> I feel his spirit working through me every day. Besides, if I didn’t believe in Zeus, I would be depressed and have to face the real world. OH, not to mention…if Zeus and the other gods don’t make us fall in love, make our crops grow and create waves in the water, then who does? Everyone knows this can’t be explained by science >_>
February 14th, 2010 at 3:54 am
They call it faith.
I call it stubbornness.
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WWHMJD? HE WOULD ROCK!!!
Thou shalt turn thy music UP!
February 14th, 2010 at 4:11 am
cuz the BIBLE IS FROM GOD and it happened and will happen….if you dont agree then see myths cuz youre lying…
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February 14th, 2010 at 4:23 am
‘ …no proof of Jesus Christ…?
Ancient writings. about Jesus Christ:
1/ Cornelius Tacitus; CE 55-120. Roman historian ca. 112 CE). He writes about Jesus in his ‘Annals’. He talks about ‘Christus, the founder of the name, was put to death by Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea in the reign of Tiberias.’
2/ Thallus; Samaritan historian, ca. 52 CE. One of the first secular writers who mentions ‘Christ’; wrote attempting to give a natural explanation for the darkness which occurred at the crucifixion of Jesus. He did not deny the existence of Jesus – tried to explain the strange circumstances surrounding His death.
3/ Phlegon: a 1st century historian. In his work called ‘Chronicles’, he testifies that darkness came over the land at the time Christ was crucified. Phlegon and Thallus both wrote about Jesus’s existence and the long period of Darkness in the middle of the day at his death.
4/ Flavius Josephus. A Jewish general turned Roman historian, born 37/38 CE. He wrote the Jewish Antiquites and in one described Jesus as a wise man, a doer of wonderful works and calls him the Christ. He also affirmed that Jesus was executed by Pilate and rose from the dead and wrote ‘… and brought before it the brother of Jesus, the so-called Christ, whose name was James…’
5/ Lucian of Samosata: Greek satirist of the latter half of the 2nd century. Spoke scornfully about ‘Christ’.
6/ Suetonius – Roman historian; court official and annalist under Hadrian, 120 CE. Comments: ‘As the Jews were making constant disturbance at the instigation of Chrestus, he expelled them from Rome.’ [Luke also makes reference to this expulsion in Acts 18:1-2]
7/ Pliny the younger- governor of Bithynia in Asia Minor CE.112. He wrote to the emperor Trajan about Christians and their devotion to Christ.
8/ The Talmud. This consists of two separate books dealing with Jewish law, written during the period from 100 A.D. to 500 A.D. It speaks frequently of Jesus of Nazareth, but in unfriendly terms. However, it never disputed his status as a historical figure
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February 14th, 2010 at 4:49 am
I know that Zeus is real because I feel it in my heart >_> I feel his spirit working through me every day. Besides, if I didn’t believe in Zeus, I would be depressed and have to face the real world. OH, not to mention…if Zeus and the other gods don’t make us fall in love, make our crops grow and create waves in the water, then who does? Everyone knows this can’t be explained by science >_>
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February 14th, 2010 at 5:14 am
Yeah i like clash of the gods too
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