[lbo-talk] Signs of the times

[Chris Doss]

The myths of catholicism are few in number (there are only three, IIRC) and impossible to empirically disprove (Jesus rose from the grave -- you can't really prove that statement false unless you have a time machine). "Native Americans are Hebrews" is on a whole other level; religious philosophers in the Middle Ages and before spent lots of time interpreting similar statements in the Bible or Koran metaphorically, because taken literally they are obviously ridiculous, and these people weren't stupid.

--- On Sat, 9/19/09, RicardoStarkey at aol.com <RicardoStarkey at aol.com> wrote:


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> Yes,  age has a lot to do with it.  It's one
> thing for ancient, cherished 
> myths  to be passed down and modified century after
> century.  It's quite 
> another  to fabricate an entire book out of whole
> cloth, claiming that an angel 
> pointed  you to some ancient plates that you managed
> to translate with the 
> aid of some  magical instruments.  Of course,
> none of it makes much sense, 
> but at  least Catholics can admire a long history of
> myth-making, which 
> started back  when the term "myth" didn't have the
> connotation of  being 
> anti-Enlightenment, anti-rational.  What's to admire
> in the  myths of the Mormon 
> church, which were invented by a small handful of 
> Anglo-American men within the 
> last couple of hundred years?  (Not to  mention
> the bit about the 
> indigenous peoples of the Americas being cursed with 
> dark pigmentation because of 
> their wickedness.)
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