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Hi wil. It's an interesting question pattimax has raised. To be honest, I just posted a link because nothing in my experience leads me to believe that we could actually discuss this without a nuclear exchange that would destroy the thread. I can't see any advantage to a Christian believer in...

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence", Donald Rumsfeld. Yes, I understand what you're saying. But I think we should wonder whether there are enough trees to make a forest. Shrubery is a different thing. In any case, if you can imagine yourself outside the box looking in, do you...

Actually, the Herod that beheaded John the B. was a tetrarch. This find is very interesting. I gather that the guy wo found the tomb has been poking around on the site since the seventies looking for it. It must be very gratifying for him to find it.

Hi Pattimax. Merely listing the inconsistencies in the Gospels doesn't do justice to any kind of open minded but respectful debate. There are, on one side, believers, and on the other zealous Bible debunkers. A larger dialog is needed. Here's an interesting link to an article titled Fatigue...

"Chullin 2:24 tells how Rabbi Eliezer was once arrested and charged with minuth. When the chief judge (hegemon) interrogated him, the rabbi answered that he "trusted the judge." Although Rabbi Eliezer was referring to God, the judge interpreted him to be referring to the judge himself, and freed...

Wow, did I ever botch the layout on that. Sorry, I'm clerically illiterate.:)

Hi Thomas, thanks for the nice response. This isn't by way of argument, just my thoughts at the moment. Josephus: I'm reasonably certain the passage from the Testimonium is an insertion. That's the mainstream point of view. I'm less certain about the other passage which mentions James...

Hi Thomas. Just from my own reading it seems that the Gospels function to create Jesus' mythos. But who is the real man? What was his real name? When, and for how long did he actually live? I can't find anything credible on that. And then there's all this other Davinci Code stuff, black...

Could you expand on that?

Something I find amusing is that here in the States it seems sometimes that the payoff for feminism is that women get to be even more blatantly objectified. But it's really not feminism. Real feminism is as dead as Betty Friedan, who I'm convinced will forever spin in her grave. The politics...

Wow, what an excellent, interesting post! Thank you so much! Thanks for the effort. Sunny

What sorts of oppression have you noticed in Egypt which seem particular to Muslim countries? How does that contrast, in your experience, with oppression in Christian countries? What are the similarities which transcend religious and ethnic differences in culture? What comprises feminism in...

That's good to know. I have a developmentally delayed daughter in pre-school. She has language and advanced cognitive delays. Sunny

I've tried to look at this issue objectively. The problem in considering even a moderately literal point of view is that all commentary, except for itchy apologists like Spong, is automatically biased by the constraints of faith. Then there are the Bible debunkers, followed by the shiny faced...

What the heck does that mean Alvis? Hi Thomas. I get the feeling that I'm laboring under a different definition of mythology than everyone else. You've all agreed that "myth" doesn't mean "false", but I'm wondering... Let me put it this way, is the Christian meta-mythology: God and the...

I love Lost. I liked that Sawyer strangled Tom Sawyer, he's been getting to PW lately with Freckles. That whole thing with Locke having to carry his father's corpse in a bag over his shoulder was, way, way spooky Freudian. Sunny

What is history, what is myth? Was Jesus a real person? Are the Gospels historically accurate?

Hi Miss Amy! You said you're a teacher. What do you teach? Sunny

What's the difference between meta myth and monomyth? Doesn't Christianity propose itself as the sole posessor of THE metamyth? How is that not monomythical?

Hi. Lunamoth said this: I'm looking at myth making as an ongoing active process necessary to create a sort of mind-body bond which allows practical consciousness. It's a survival skill, really. We begin to create our personal mythology in early childhood through role playing and...