Do you "believe" in Secular and Humanist History? [View All]

While the inconsistencies of the New Testament, the Torah/Tanahk, and Church Fathers have been extensively catalogued and debated, other "ancient" writings, generally those in the "humanist" or "classical" tradition, are generally assumed to be historical and factual. To this day college professors who should know better are teaching their students that a blind poet named Homer "wrote" some 700 pages of verse, which was then memorized by poets and passed down generally unaltered for 3 thousand years, and later, "ancient, miraculously preserved" manuscripts were discovered, right at the time it became politically convienient for Greece to have an established history older than the Catholic church. While there is no argument that the Greek civilization goes back to the earliest times of human civilization, we have almost no writing from this time period. Most of the stories we assume are from "ancient" Greece are actually manuscripts of the medival era - and we must believe in thousand year long conspiracies to believe that these writings were left and hidden intact by secret societies of scholars, or miraculously discovered in some monestary after being "hidden" for 1000 years.

Can _anyone_ produce a manuscript of Seutonius, or Herodotus, or Thucydides that is more than 800 years old? Can _anyone_ produce writing from _any_ of these supposedly "ancient" but "historical" characters like Socrates, Plato, or even Julius Caesar? (There have been forged letters supposedly written by Julius Caesar "discovered" every 50 years or so for the last 500 years, just like letters supposedly written by Jesus Christ.)

How much "blind faith" do you need to have to believe what's being taught in history and classics department to this day?

It's time to put away all the myths of Christianity, Judaism, Paganism, and Classicism and Humanism and look at the historical evidence with a dispassionate, scientific method.

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