Evangelicals: You Need to Stop Believing In Stupid Things

countryboy said:
You mocked a quote by Maya Angelou, a woman of color. Not only did you mock it, but you used the racially-charged phrase "mumbo-jumbo" (of course you misspelled it, because you're an idiot. But the sentiment was still there) to do it. How does that make me a troll?
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Never heard of Maya Angelou!
 
PoliTalker said:
Goodbye TOP,



You were not, and your insolence is intolerable. Since you contribute less than nothing to the political discussions here and instead make yourself out quite the busybody with something to say ABOUT all the other posters, you will not be missed. Welcome to my Ignore List. Have a good life.
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You're on to Top's modus operandi!
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
It's interesting, isn't it? I haven't yet begun working on my minor, which is anthropology, but I'm looking forward to it for that reason. Don't you suspect that our similarities as humans are much more numerous than our differences?
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Very much so. It's not anthropology, but at the moment I'm fascinated by a book I'm reading about the period between the end of Roman dominance in Britain and the rise of the Mediaeval kingdoms. In it he gives fascinating detail on how each period from the Nineteenth Century on has projected its current concerns back onto this particular past and produced a totally different history. It seems to me that this is true of the study of the Old Testament too: at the moment we are preoccupied with 'facts' and the accuracy of statements (in the age of Trump you can see reason for this), whereas I think it would be more interesting and useful to look at the likely facts that gave rise to the stories. I think this would be true of most legendary material. It's clear that some of the stories in our Mediaeval Mabinogi, for instance, are originally about gods - but they are surprisingly sympathetic gods in sympathetic stories. One of them, for instance, with his brother's support, rapes a girl: the High God figure turns them into animals, and for three years they breed with one another, and each bears young (one of which is the first Dylan, son of the wave), which would seem to me a proper learning-experience (and the High God marries the girl, by the way). It would be fascinating to reconstruct the societies out of which these stories come!
 
Penderyn said:
Very much so. It's not anthropology, but at the moment I'm fascinated by a book I'm reading about the period between the end of Roman dominance in Britain and the rise of the Mediaeval kingdoms. In it he gives fascinating detail on how each period from the Nineteenth Century on has projected its current concerns back onto this particular past and produced a totally different history. It seems to me that this is true of the study of the Old Testament too: at the moment we are preoccupied with 'facts' and the accuracy of statements (in the age of Trump you can see reason for this), whereas I think it would be more interesting and useful to look at the likely facts that gave rise to the stories. I think this would be true of most legendary material. It's clear that some of the stories in our Mediaeval Mabinogi, for instance, are originally about gods - but they are surprisingly sympathetic gods in sympathetic stories. One of them, for instance, with his brother's support, rapes a girl: the High God figure turns them into animals, and for three years they breed with one another, and each bears young (one of which is the first Dylan, son of the wave), which would seem to me a proper learning-experience (and the High God marries the girl, by the way). It would be fascinating to reconstruct the societies out of which these stories come!
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That's a lie. Looking at pictures isn't reading.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
sorry....ran this through Google translate and it said it didn't know that language......
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Resorting back into fire ants mode where if one bites then all of them will bite as those running Christiananality pedophilia not so Evangelical thieving US Constitution - old glory - old testament - absentee voting ballot arsonists for double negative entropy resulting into translate master race master plan language of suicidal super egos beyond the pleasure principle.
 
Penderyn said:
Very much so. It's not anthropology, but at the moment I'm fascinated by a book I'm reading about the period between the end of Roman dominance in Britain and the rise of the Mediaeval kingdoms. In it he gives fascinating detail on how each period from the Nineteenth Century on has projected its current concerns back onto this particular past and produced a totally different history. It seems to me that this is true of the study of the Old Testament too: at the moment we are preoccupied with 'facts' and the accuracy of statements (in the age of Trump you can see reason for this), whereas I think it would be more interesting and useful to look at the likely facts that gave rise to the stories. I think this would be true of most legendary material. It's clear that some of the stories in our Mediaeval Mabinogi, for instance, are originally about gods - but they are surprisingly sympathetic gods in sympathetic stories. One of them, for instance, with his brother's support, rapes a girl: the High God figure turns them into animals, and for three years they breed with one another, and each bears young (one of which is the first Dylan, son of the wave), which would seem to me a proper learning-experience (and the High God marries the girl, by the way). It would be fascinating to reconstruct the societies out of which these stories come!
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All of our current events are built upon history, aren't they?

What is the Medieval Mabinogi?
 
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