I don't know, I think the core narrative of Christianity is perfectly reasonable: There's an intangible, undetectable, omnipotent sky-dad who decided to incarnate himself into the world at an arbitrary point in history in order to die on his own altar to appease his own wrath with his own love and save all the people who are breaking his largely secret litany of rules from his malevolent punishment, but everyone needs to believe in this for it to do any good for them, and they need to be told through hearsay by twelve people travelling on foot from one of the emptiest and looniest regions of just one of the several human cultures that exist at that point in time, because that's the most effective way to do it... only that those guys need to hurry, because endgame might come at any time for unspecific reasons.
And they're saying that having this perfectly sensible story presented to them as fact somehow makes them have more difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction? I don't know. I don't see how.
Only sometimes. It depends, like all other properties, on the person telling the story, because the story CONSTANTLY changes. Except nobody will admit that they've changed any part of it, or that their version is different than someone else's version, unless they also insist that the other versions aren't the same story at all in any way.
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Date: 2014-07-23 04:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-07-23 07:34 pm (UTC)And they're saying that having this perfectly sensible story presented to them as fact somehow makes them have more difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction? I don't know. I don't see how.
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