How dumb can some "conservatives" be?

**Tellos Athenaios** · 10-07-2009, 04:03

Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

When Palestine became occupied by the Romans, the old myths needed adaptation. The link betwen the divine and the earthly authorities needed to be severed. This is what Christianity did.

Not according to Pax Deorum, some 200 odd years of erratic persecution it didn't.

When Rome became Christian, Christianity was revised again. An earthly hierarchy was installed.

Au-contraire; the then ‘political class’ (those families who could previously pursue political jobs) could now legitimately pursue clerical jobs. In case you didn't know being bishop (overseer, literally) then gradually became equivalent to running the local episcopate: a pretty big job. The hierarchy had always been there on the local level; the real adaptation was constructing a bigger framework in which those decentralized local bishops could co-operate within the context of and adhere to a single dogma. That is what Nicomedia & Calchedon are about: establishing that supra-organization.

And now, US conservatives revise the bible to create a heavenly mandate for their free market etc.

Just don't lay it in the hands of anyone with a basic high-school understanding of ancient Greek and ask him/her to double-check it. If I could've gotten away with that kind of “creative reception” during the relevant exams...

EDIT: Although I do agree with the basic gist of your post which is:

Every age, every culture, needs its own myths. Old ones are revised, ne ones are developed. Always, the present is confirmed through inventing a past, inventing myths.

**Aemilius Paulus** · 10-07-2009, 04:21

An expert in Classical History appeared! Flee men, flee!! Our arguments cannot stand up to solid knowledge!

Yes, there is little ground we can gain by debating with someone as kowledgeable in Classical history as one of the lead EB team members. What now?

**A Very Super Market** · 10-07-2009, 05:40

Conservapedia is not a hoax. Fred Phelps is not a hoax. Anarchist hippies who spend their whole day on acid are not hoaxes. People can be stupid.

On the other hand, I can't decide if Jack Chick Tracts are a hoax or not.

http://www.chick.com/default.asp

I can imagine the poor ninth-grader, trying to look up porn and finding this.