Note: you can interpret the following however you so choose; be it fact or fiction, because, unlike a religious institution, I am not going to try and force you to accept a mere [wo]man’s thoughts as truth, and more…
My thoughts are that the origins of the bible as a factual book seem pretty sketchy. Basically, what we know is that some guys a few decades after some guy who maybe existed decided to write up some stories about said guy. The stories through oration become very popular, especially among kids and teens. The men who came up with the stories decide to bury them. Some other guys dig them up a few hundred years later and decide they’re so great they’re going to publish an anthology. Somehow something here got really f*#$ed up, and people started interpreting it as truth.
Ok, so here’s my modern-day version of the story. There’s this story called Huckleberry Finn, about this boy, and it’s nothing really extraordinary, but it’s adventurous and well-recieved. It’s really popular among young people for a long time. But after a while, society changes so drastically that it just doesn’t seem relevant to kids anymore, and it’s ‘boring’, and so the popularity of the story is on the decline. A few decades later, though, some kids happen to come across the story and the gap between the story’s society and their own lives has grown enough that it’s something that, instead of discouraging the kids, becomes almost interesting. Like an engaging history lesson. So this author decides they are going to pick up the story and totally revamp it and make some dough, man! How could you go wrong exploiting to the maximum a story that already exists just by tweaking a few points? So here comes Harry Potter, and it pretty much explodes in popularity. But people don’t care about Huck Finn anymore, cos now there’s something better out there. No one notices that Huck Finn has been transformed from this pretty much average kid into a superhuman, or at least they don’t consciously see that there’s anything wrong with it. And there really isn’t. Except that a couple years later, another author decides to write a new series, and it’s drastically different—and it’s the same character, just transformed again—but again, nothing really wrong with it. And this time the series is called Twilight, and masses of teens start what very closely resembles a cult following of the series. And girls start dumping their boyfriends because they aren’t enough like ‘Edward’. Edward, as in a fictional character. But somehow, the original message got lost. Convoluted beyond recognition. And this cult following was the beginning of what we now recognize as Christianity. Pretty warped? Tell me about it…
To be continued...
My thoughts are that the origins of the bible as a factual book seem pretty sketchy. Basically, what we know is that some guys a few decades after some guy who maybe existed decided to write up some stories about said guy. The stories through oration become very popular, especially among kids and teens. The men who came up with the stories decide to bury them. Some other guys dig them up a few hundred years later and decide they’re so great they’re going to publish an anthology. Somehow something here got really f*#$ed up, and people started interpreting it as truth.
Ok, so here’s my modern-day version of the story. There’s this story called Huckleberry Finn, about this boy, and it’s nothing really extraordinary, but it’s adventurous and well-recieved. It’s really popular among young people for a long time. But after a while, society changes so drastically that it just doesn’t seem relevant to kids anymore, and it’s ‘boring’, and so the popularity of the story is on the decline. A few decades later, though, some kids happen to come across the story and the gap between the story’s society and their own lives has grown enough that it’s something that, instead of discouraging the kids, becomes almost interesting. Like an engaging history lesson. So this author decides they are going to pick up the story and totally revamp it and make some dough, man! How could you go wrong exploiting to the maximum a story that already exists just by tweaking a few points? So here comes Harry Potter, and it pretty much explodes in popularity. But people don’t care about Huck Finn anymore, cos now there’s something better out there. No one notices that Huck Finn has been transformed from this pretty much average kid into a superhuman, or at least they don’t consciously see that there’s anything wrong with it. And there really isn’t. Except that a couple years later, another author decides to write a new series, and it’s drastically different—and it’s the same character, just transformed again—but again, nothing really wrong with it. And this time the series is called Twilight, and masses of teens start what very closely resembles a cult following of the series. And girls start dumping their boyfriends because they aren’t enough like ‘Edward’. Edward, as in a fictional character. But somehow, the original message got lost. Convoluted beyond recognition. And this cult following was the beginning of what we now recognize as Christianity. Pretty warped? Tell me about it…
To be continued...
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