Realistic Caption
October 16, 2007 by Mark Pogue
I love the caption to this picture. It speaks for itself and many other’s opinions. How can one claim that the entire contents of such a book, with so many authors, “cherry-picked” translations, and interpretations, to be “the truth”? Since when is delusion “truth”?
Operating from the assumption that it was written purely by men.
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Should have said humans.
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** The “real” myth is better — and fun to read **
The building of a great ship and weathering a “universal” deluge was accomplished by Unapishtim (sometimes, Utnapishtim) and his family, as told in The Epic of Gilgamesh, 4500 years ago.
The myth in the so-called sacred texts of judaism and xianity is nothing but a very late, very corrupted understanding of far earlier Sumerian texts.
And by the logic of faith-based pseudo-reasoning, Enki, Inanna, Utu are among the real gods. The gods of Sumer “existed” before Abraham left Ur. (Inanna is a far better object of reverence than any androcentric, paternalistic, misogynist bearded divine daddy.)
If you don’t know the great epic myths of Gilgamesh and his friend Enkidu; then, you’ll never see how later religions, Judaism, Xianity, and Islam are derivative late-comers.
You will read about a world so much healthier than the one inhabited by sin-soaked xian puritans, those revenge seeking, slum-dwellers of the Eastern Roman Empire.
bipolar2
copyright asserted 2007
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Aaron..
Of course, humans wrote it. Did it fall from the sky? Did it grow from the ground?
What I’m trying to convey here is that we humans are not inerrant. So-called “holy” scriptures are no more “holy” than a grandmother’s cookbook….and probably less factual.
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Mark,
I couldn’t agree with you more. However where we’re going to differ is that I believe that there is a God out there that inspired scripture and exists outside of natural law and what atheists are so keen to term as rational thinking. I’m just sharing my thoughts.
Aaron
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So your god exists outside of rational thinking?
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