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Hephaestos said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
@Hephaestos: Any sacred story which can be interpreted in multiple ways can be called a myth, in academia myth doesn't mean a false story

 

And since this is an academia discution forum, I guess everybody has an academic understanding of the word?

one of the definitions of myth is "A fictitious story, person, or thing" and that is the one comonly refered to in academic words such as "mythomania"

All i'm saying is, I find the choice of words offensive especially when you  couple it with "I thought you Abrahamics were down with crucifixtion, don't you chrisitians stick pictures of your mythological messiah being crucified everywhere?"

 

 Well I do see a lot of images of Christ on the cross everywhere, and the story of his resurrection and rebirth is a myth, as is the story of virgin birth and walking on water, etc., etc. as these are sacred stories open to interpretation, so hence the wording I used.



 

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