On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:29:33 -0700, Ben Goren <ben@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>Your only other intellectually honest option is to claim that
>Osiris, Mithra, Bacchus, Jesus, Adonis, Dionysus, and the like
>aren't gods either, because /they're/ only representations of
>mystical fairy-tale beings that don't actually exist no matter how
>much you believe in them. And while there's a great deal of truth
>to that approach, it's an extremely counter-productive one from a
>linguistic perspective. Tell somebody that Zeus isn't a god, and
>they'll wonder what you've been smoking.
Well almost.
I was raised a xtian, so obviously Jesus would not have been included
in that list.
However, it is only the statues that are not gods.
It was not statues of Zeus, Hera, Apollo, etc, that lived on Olympus,
it was the gods them selves.
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