Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Miscellaneous Myths: The Book Of Invasions" video.
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Hi, Red, this is Christianity. You know how there are some people who are atheists? (They don't believe in Allah, Zeus, Odin, Horus, Vishnu, and the rest? I get the idea you're one of them, by the way.)
Well, we're a lot like that, except there's one God we DO believe in (atheists but for one god less, as it were), and we think that there's probably some naturalistic explanation for the rest of them, mainly that they might be garbled stories of historical figures from pre-literate societies. (As opposed to, say, the extensive written records we have starting with Greco-Roman times that exist in a reasonably intact chain up through the last two thousand years. Thanks to the medieval Irish, among enough other independent groups that (for example) we have a wealth of evidence that Julius Caesar was assassinated, and even MORE evidence that Christ was crucified, etc.)
Anyway, sure, there are references to demons and such in stories like the Prose Edda, but those are probably a gloss / hybrid / bastardization of the aforementioned garbled stories of pre-literate history, with some Jungian archetypes mixed in because that seems to be just what humans DO when we write stories that last for centuries.
So, yeah.
And also, sorry not sorry, we burned the stories of jaguar-raining snake demons who demanded human sacrifice because these are CLEARLY so demonic that they made a violent psychopath like Hernan Cortez look like the GOOD guy, replacing the old ghastly collection of feathers and fangs with God who sacrifices *Himself*.
I can only imagine ancient South Americans, seeing a crucifix for the first time, and asking, "So is that how you sacrifice people to your gods?" and a priest replying, "No, that's God, who sacrificed Himself for us, so that he suffers instead", to which the South American replies, "I'm intrigued by this new theology, and would like to hear more."
So again, yeah.
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