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Back to Episodes#84 – Christianity: the “true myth”
Published 3 years, 10 months ago
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Literary scholars such as JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis see Christianity as not only the fulfillment of ancient Hebrew prophecies, but also the deep-seated yearnings of the human heart, expressed through a multitude of myths and religions.
Our previous episodes looked at hominids a few hundred thousand years ago acquiring cognitive abilities which equipped them to think abstractly, symbolically, and religiously (episodes #75, #76, #77, and #78 ), which they [we] used to create a long list of religions. And then over the past few weeks, we’ve looked at the evolution of two particular world religions: Judaism (episode #80) and Christianity (episodes #81, #82, and #83).
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