[responding to a post about how his religion is unoriginal]
whats funny is that my legend is the oldest out of all of them.
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Being the oldest practiced religion, or the oldest formal religion would not make it necessarily original, in that it could still have lifted ideas from superstitions that were not previously piled up together into a single ideology.
Also, Hinduism wants a word with you...
I THINK what the retard's saying is that, if their book is right, Adam and Eve were the first humans, and they were (assumedly) Christian. Or, more likely, Jewish, since this would have been pre-Christ.
...Not that this makes him any less of a dumbshit.
All of the ones that came after yours?
Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto, all the ones collectively known as 'pagan', Judaism... Christianity. The brand new religion, as I was taught. By a Christian religion professor.
So you're one of the original animists who thought there were spirits in the thunder and the rocks and the wind and the rain?
Golly, I thought y'all were a dying breed.
So you admit that it's a legend, then?
Also, Christianity is actually a fairly new religion, compared with some of the ancient ones out there...
The two individuals of note who are divine and die like Jesus are Mithras and Horus who are both nailed to stuff. (Ironically, the stigmata is a lie, Jesus would have been tied to it. The nails are probably Christianity borrowing from Norse mythology whose Allfather was nailed to the world tree/hanged from it to gain knowledge)
In Hinduism the equivalent figure would be Bishama in the Mahabaratha whose name means "terrible oath". He took a vow of celibacy and to abstain from women completely and to never come in contact with one to ensure that he is never tempted. Its a terrible oath since early Hinduism was very relaxed and classical in regards to sex. He does this to please his father regarding succession. Unfortunately his next generation (the infamous Pandavas and Kaurava factions) go to war over succession. Bishama's oath gave him the ability to chose the point he dies. So he says "he would die only if his feet were kept off the ground for an entire day. He is "good" but has a duty to the evil "Kauravas" since he is sworn to protect the Kingdom. So he does his duty in fighting the heroes. Eventually the heroes "cheat" by sending a woman to fight him. He refuse to fight her and the "heroes" fill him with so many arrows that as he falls his feet are lifted off the ground. So he dies lying on a bed of arrows. He teaches his grand nephews about the importance of duty and sticking to a promise.
Its close to a thousand years prior to 0 AD.
@ FullMetalGeneticist: Also, when Odin hung from the tree, he was said to have a spear stuck in his side, kind of like that Spear of Longinus thing. I'm not sure when that concept was added, but it was certainly thought up after the thing with Odin.
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not to mention, the Baptist branch, which you'll be hard pressed to convince me Brad is not, is younger still, lest I'm mistaken, at a couple hundred years old.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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