Any discussion which treats any part of the Holy Horseshit as somehow relevant becomes worthless. The self-serving rantings of later believers are designed to solidify the position of their particular variant not to establish what happened or why.
Which leaves us with trying to evaluate this stuff in the light of what little actual historical/archaeological information we have. Not an easy task.
But as every other religion demonstrates an actual human or god is not needed to kick-start it. They spring up all by themselves from the fertile minds of men.
Which leaves us with trying to evaluate this stuff in the light of what little actual historical/archaeological information we have. Not an easy task.
But as every other religion demonstrates an actual human or god is not needed to kick-start it. They spring up all by themselves from the fertile minds of men.
Robert G. Ingersoll : “No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.”