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To: pgyanke
Your post #50 is dishonest, whether intentioned or not. Here is why:

The Iliad and the Odyssey are FICTION written around an historical event; the sacking of Troy.

This is a dissembling obfuscation. One could just as easily state that the Testaments are FICTION written around historical events. You are the one that previously asserted that because no great inaccuracies have been proven in the historical elements, this then somehow establishes the veracity of the mythological embellishments.

The Iliad & the Odyssey are not by any stretch crucial to this analogy. Indeed, any historical fiction would suffice to establish the same point. That point being, no matter how many facts are accurate, they do not establish the accuracy of additional facts for which no evidence exists.

Here are two examples on either extreme:

1) A ten volume history of the world includes one sentence stating: "Krishna made it so." The accuracy of the other 999.9% of the work does not make that sentence accurate as well.

2) An epic mythological saga describing a cosmic battle of deities includes one sentence stating: "The mountains of Scandinavia trembled." The accuracy of that statement (there is indeed a Scandinavia, which features mountains, which do 'tremble'..) does not establish the accuracy of the remaining 999.9% of the work.

Both previous examples - the Homeric poems and the Hebrew testaments - merely fall somewhere between these two extremes.

78 posted on 10/16/2003 9:50:32 AM PDT by AntiGuv (When the countdown hits zero, something's gonna happen..)
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To: AntiGuv
This is a dissembling obfuscation. One could just as easily state that the Testaments are FICTION written around historical events.

Go away, Junior. The Iliad and Odyssey were fiction when they were written and were considered fiction by their intended audience. The Testaments were written as fact and accepted as fact by their audience. Those who haven't been able to disprove the scriptures (and let me tell you, MANY have tried) have invariably failed or hung their hat on irrelevancies. Your continued attempt to spin your way out of your erroneous comparison compounds the observation of your ignorance.

As to the rest of your post... I disagree with 999.9% of what you said. In case you don't understand, that means I disagree with what you said and another 10 things you didn't say.

Both previous examples - the Homeric poems and the Hebrew testaments - merely fall somewhere between these two extremes.

Because you say so. Well, I'm convinced now. You've certainly proven your scholarship to make such an assertion!

86 posted on 10/16/2003 9:58:18 AM PDT by pgyanke (Big Bang Theory = First there was nothing...then it exploded.)
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