>>97373866You just don't GET IT do you?
If I claim to be a Tolkien scholar and I constantly mix in things that only exist in the movies, I'm a pretty poor scholar, am I not? And if I claim that it doesn't matter because it's all made up anyway
I NEVER asked whether any of this stuff is true. I ASKED where a certain idea came from.
Also, historians track, not only historical events, but the history of ideas, the history of beliefs, the history of concepts.
But you're not interested in any of that, are you? You just want to handwave away anything you don't believe in, without actually knowing anything about it.
I'm not a Hindu, but if I claimed that the reason that they don't eat beef is because they believe that one day all cows will return to their home planet, and then the cosmic bull will come to earth to judge us all, and all beef-eaters will be trampled to death, I'd look like a gol dang idiot.
This would all be self evident if you actually tried to understand the questions that are being asked, rather than sperging out.
