The Mythicist Position | What is Mythicism?

The Mythicist Position - illustrated article:
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The Mythicist Position:

"Mythicism represents the perspective that many gods, goddesses and other heroes and legendary figures said to possess extraordinary and/or supernatural attributes are not "real people" but are in fact mythological characters. Along with this view comes the recognition that many of these figures personify or symbolize natural phenomena, such as the sun, moon, stars, planets, constellations, etc., constituting what is called "astrotheology."

"As a major example of the mythicist position, various biblical characters such as Adam and Eve, Satan, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Joshua, King David, Solomon & Jesus Christ, among other figures, in reality represent mythological characters along the same lines as the Egyptian, Sumerian, Phoenician, Indian, Greek, Roman and other godmen, who are all presently accepted as myths, rather than historical figures."

- 'Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection' (2009) page 12
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For more information, please see the following:

Why I'm A Mythicist
http://www.freethoughtnation.com/foru...

Evemerist vs. Mythicist Position
http://freethoughtnation.com/forums/v...

The History of Mythicism
http://stellarhousepublishing.com/myt...

The Mythicist Challenge Petition [Draft]
http://www.freethoughtnation.com/foru...

Were George Washington and Thomas Jefferson Jesus Mythicists?
http://truthbeknown.com/washington-je...

Astrotheology of the ancients - illustrated article:
http://stellarhousepublishing.com/ast...

The Origins of Christianity and the Quest for the Historical Jesus Christ
http://www.stellarhousepublishing.com...

Religion and the Ph.D.: A Brief History
http://www.freethoughtnation.com/foru...

Zeitgeist Part 1 & the Supportive Evidence
http://www.freethoughtnation.com/foru...

New Zeitgeist Part 1 Sourcebook (2010), Transcript & Sources
http://www.stellarhousepublishing.com...

Rebuttal to Dr. Chris Forbes concerning 'Zeitgeist, Part 1'
http://truthbeknown.com/chrisforbesze...

Richard Dawkins on Zeitgeist Part 1
http://www.freethoughtnation.com/foru...

Stellar House Publishing:
http://www.stellarhousepublishing.com

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[1200mpg]

thank you spaceagebachelor, appreciated.

[spaceagebachelor]

Cheers! Take care :)

[dillinger9999]

@spaceagebachelor great video

[dillinger9999]

"There is no full concrete (100%) evidence that God does not exists" REALLY? so if I told you that I can fly & you tell me to prove it, & I tell you to prove that I can't fly? How are you going to prove that I can't fly?

Extraordinary claims DEMAND Extraordinary evidence, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!

[Sascha Lührs]

Apparently europeanforlyfe has never heard of Ockham's Razor, Critical Rationalism and Russel's Teapot.. :-(

[Hercules2345]

Good one Sascha, you might like this too:

2,750-year-old solar-aligned temple discovered in Israel

freethoughtnation. com /contributing-writers/63-achar­ya-s/755-2750-year-old-solar-a­ligned-temple-discovered-in-is­rael. html

Book:

'Yahweh and the Sun: Biblical and Archaeological Evidence for Sun Worship in Ancient Israel'

by well-known Bible scholar Rev. Dr. J. Glen Taylor

[Sascha Lührs]

"We know from texts and from archaeology that traditional israelite religion involved venerating the ancestors, the gods of the underworld, so to speak. We know from texts at least and from iconography that we find in the ground that traditional israelite religion involved venerating the stars and the planets. We know therefore that traditional israelite religion was polytheistic."

– Baruch Halpern, Covenant Foundation Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Georgia

[whitesmith bonesdark]

Nature is god and godess and it will destroy all our religions and sciences...and create new ones afterwards....poor astronomers, poor jesus freaks and poor dems and repubs...they might not make it fully intact..

[whitesmith bonesdark]

or, like, superman could take muhammed ali, at least in that one comic he could...almost...

[Hercules2345]

LOL, you merely confirm how little you understand the standards by which we examine evidence. There's no credible evidence for god - that's 100%. We leave 1% in cases that consist of negatives - proving something doesn't exist. We can prove positives - claims about god, Jesus etc & they've all failed. So, it's dumb to take that 1% & act like it means something it does not, which confirms your utter ignorance on this issue.

I've wasted enough time on you. Come back when you have valid evidence.

[europeanforlyfe]

There is no full concrete (100%) evidence that God does not exists either. Lets focus on your statement "absence of evidence is evidence of absence". When somebody does not have evidence, that means it is not proven. Scientists were not able to prove that God does not exists because there is always something before the atom, Big Bang Theory, etc. You just contradicted yourself, "I leave 1% to be open because we cannot prove a negative in this case". Exactly, we cannot prove if God exists or not