alpha centauri
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You are obviously also too old to recognisze that you are doing the same, what you blame others to do. Why should I answer your unqualified assertions, that you stupidly expect me to answer?To old to reply to unqualified assertions that you keep secret and stupidly expect me to answer to.
To think we believe in the supernatural when we began by naming Yahweh a vile demiurge sure shows how gutsy we were.
I will try to educate though.
It doesnt make sense to claim a supernatural being, if you dont believe in it. Because no matter what, you would have been persecuted. If you believe in a supernatural being or not.
You didnt answer my argument. Why are you and not Christians allowed to say your books are non-literal ?Please listen as to what is said about the literal reading of myths.
"Origen, the great second or third century Greek commentator on the Bible said that it is absolutely impossible to take these texts literally. You simply cannot do so. And he said, "God has put these sort of conundrums and paradoxes in so that we are forced to seek a deeper meaning."
You shot yourself in the foot with this comment. Origen was a Christian not a Gnostic. This proves my theory not yours. He even converted a Gnostic.
"Later, Origen succeeded in converting a wealthy man named Ambrose from Valentinian Gnosticism to orthodox Christianity. "

Origen - Wikipedia
This is not a proof, that they didnt believe in the supernatural. That is a part, where Jesus was against the laws and summed them up.Matt 7;12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
This is how early Gnostic Christians view the transition from reading myths properly to destructive literal reading and idol worship.
If Jesus would not have believed in the supernatural, he could have said it straight out and plain. Because it could not have been worse than being persecuted and hanged. The same is true for the early Christian.
Furthermore the Greek religions were more in sync with science. So if they wanted to be more scientific, it would have been better to return to the Greek religions and philosophies (Plato, Aristoteles and Co) rather than convert to Christianity Because the Greek were superior in science compared to the Christians.
Explain it to me.
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