Maya
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| Quote (didymos @ May 11 2010,16:08) |
That's not that uncommon a concept in Christianity. I doubt Phaedros came up with that himself. C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien both believed something similar. Lewis actually got it from Tolkien. Here's how he put it:
| Quote | | The story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us in the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened: and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God's myth where the others are men's myths: i. e. the Pagan stories are God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images as He found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call real things. |
I'm surprised Clivebaby hasn't jumped all over the opportunity to quote Lewis again, actually. |
That ready acceptance of proof by assertion is something I'll never understand about the fundies.
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