| > They are not literal For most, indeed. And that's good! But I have met people who claim to think they must be absolute truth, then put a huge asterisk around all the bits I point out and say those don't count for whatever reason. There was a meme back in the UK, that amongst Anglicans, only extremists actually believe in God. No idea how true that is. > Do you look for the worst paintings? Only when they're put on a pedestal and held to be amazing. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kiss_(Klimt) Widely regarded as beautiful and romantic. To me, it looks like the guy has a broken neck, and the woman has been decapitated at the base of her neck, her head rotated 90° and re-attached to her torso by the ear. Likewise, movies. The plot holes in Independence Day annoyed me so much that when the sequel came out, I started (and still have not finished) writing a book that takes the opposite road with all the mistakes the film made. So, while I've played the Eye Of Argon game, I never even tried to finish reading it once my friends and I stopped playing, and I've never bothered watching whatever the film is that has the line "you're tearing me apart Lisa". > FWIW, that passage is part of all Abrahamic religions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashthi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hera I don't limit myself to just Abrahamic myth and legend :) |