A little holiday confusion...

[defacto7]

Whose virgin birth are we supposed to celebrate today? There are so many:

Horus
Ethiopia-Sudan, 3,000 BCE
Zarathustra
Iran 1,000 BCE
Krishna
India, 900 BCE
Hercules
Greece, 800 BCE
Mithra
Persia, 600 BCE
Buddha
Nepal , 563 BCE
Dionysus
Greece, 500 BCE
Thammuz
Babylonia, 400 BCE
Hermes
Greece, 200 BCE
Adonis
Phoenicia, 200 BCE
And the one in 2 CE ...you know.

But then there are deities from non-virgin births on Dec. 25th:

Ela-Gabal
Syrian Sun God
Sol Invictus
Roman Sun God

Hmm... which one to choose?

.....Merry Mythmus!

[alittlelark]

1. All of the above - covering my bases.

[applegrove]

2. You know that liberal democracies are a myth too. Myth is a human way to be.

It is what we organize around.

[defacto7]

6. Yeah, but wouldn't it be nice to organize around science,

creativity, and preservation of life on the planet? I would.

[applegrove]

8. Yes, that is the hope of all of us here at the DU and beyond.

[Voltaire2]

11. That's an equivocation fallacy, at best.

1. a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural events.

2.a widely held but false belief or idea.

If liberal democracies are a myth, which is debatable, they are using the 2nd definition. The virgin birth nonsense is a myth using the 1st definition. Equating them is a fallacy.

[dweller]

3. one more

my homunculus


✌🏼

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus

[defacto7]

4. Wow, now I'm really confused...

That the sperm of a man be putrefied by itself in a sealed cucurbit for forty days with the highest degree of putrefaction in a horse's womb, or at least so long that it comes to life and moves itself, and stirs, which is easily observed. After this time, it will look somewhat like a man, but transparent, without a body. If, after this, it be fed wisely with the Arcanum of human blood, and be nourished for up to forty weeks, and be kept in the even heat of the horse's womb, a living human child grows therefrom, with all its members like another child, which is born of a woman, but much smaller.

But do we worship it?

Maybe I should try to make one.

[shadowmayor]

5. Argh

We goes with the Flying Spaghetti Monster at times like these!

[Skittles]

7. hard to believe anyone believes in "virgin birth"

utterly ridiculous

[defacto7]

9. I don't see why it's interesting

or even necessary as a mythical story plot. I suppose it's to make one's deity seem more than human but it's a pretty dull and historically overused shtick.

[Skittles]

10. it is just plain misogyny

can't have a woman tainted by *HORRORS*: sex

[defacto7]

12. Agreed

The gods must have a "clean" vessel not a defiled one. (puke)