| QUOTE (Lokmer - Mar 7 2005 @ 05:34 PM ) |
| ....I just don't have the words... |
Upon reading it for the second time, I was as amazed that any human could utter such stupidity, as I was the first time.
| QUOTE (Robert Bowie Johnson Jr. - cited interview) |
| ....The ancient Greeks created the living basis of our culture..... |
Yes, they had magnificent Architecture and we have strip malls. They had Alexander the Great, we have Bush. They had Honor, Dignity and sound Philosophy in society. We have neo-con greed, graft, corruption and increasing poverty, with a little religio-statist idiocy thrown in. The fucked up mess we have now doesn't hold a candle to the Glory of the ancients.
| QUOTE (Robert Bowie Johnson Jr. - cited interview) |
| ....What the Greeks meant to be an unparalleled, intricately chiseled monument to the glory of mankind turns out to be a detailed history of mankind’s delusion, and a clear-cut validation of the truth of the Word of God..... |
Yes, the bible is the "word" of biblegod alright.
| QUOTE (Norman F. Cantor - The Sacred Chain - page 51) |
| The first millennium of Jewish history as presented in the Bible has no empirical foundation whatsoever. |
We've demonstrated the errancy, self-contradiction and incongruity of the "word" of "perfect" biblegod numerous times in this forum. Yes Pagan Greek Mythology definitely "proves" that the barbaric myths of primitive, uneducated ancient Hebrew tribesmen depicted in the OT are literally true, doesn't it? This is a new depth of dementia, even for Christian "apologetics".
| QUOTE (Robert Bowie Johnson Jr. - cited interview) |
| ....This same technique is needed today to overcome the still-powerful Gorgon’s curse. Thousands of writers and teachers of mythology look directly at Athena. The stare of the Gorgon on her aegis turns their minds figuratively to stone -- a kind of mental paralysis sets in..... |
The only kind of "mental paralysis" going is called fundie dogma.
| QUOTE (continued) |
| Their thinking becomes calcified and rigid, robbed of the flexibility to see clearly. In this intellectual stupor, they are unable to recognize Athena as the serpent’s Eve. Only when we look at Athena’s image indirectly, as it is clearly and simply reflected in the Book of Genesis, are we able to get a true picture of her identity, and understand her role in Greek religion as a depiction of Eve, the serpent’s Eve.....It has been generally assumed in the past that Greek idolatry refutes the teaching of the Word of God. But when we interpret the message from the Ancient Greeks with the help of the Parthenon Code, in fact, ancient Greek religious depictions reinforce the truth of the Scriptures..... |
An absolutely incredible bit of blather, especially the "intellectual stupor" comment. The whole interview with this "scholar" is one of the most asinine things anyone will ever read. But it IS indeed a very good laugh. Thanks for posting it, Lokmer.
| QUOTE (Zach - Mar 7 2005 @ 07:00 PM) |
| Somewhere, Jason Gastrich is reading this book... |
I wouldn't doubt it. In the case of Robert and Jason, I would also recommend the film 'The Clash of the Titans'. They can put that with their other films about "supportive" mythology ('The Ten Commandments', 'The Passion Of The Christ', etc.) After all, to these types of "minds", especially if they made a movie about it, it must have literally happened....
K
