#resurrection myth

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

https://freethoughtnow.org/easter-challenge/

I HAVE AN EASTER challenge for Christians. My challenge is simply this: tell me what happened on Easter. I am not asking for proof. My straightforward request is merely that Christians tell me exactly what happened on the day that their most important doctrine was born.

Believers should eagerly take up this challenge, since without the resurrection, there is no Christianity. Paul wrote, “And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.” (I Corinthians 15:14-15)

The conditions of the challenge are simple and reasonable. In each of the four Gospels, begin at Easter morning and read to the end of the book: Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, and John 20-21. Also read Acts 1:3-12 and Paul’s tiny version of the story in I Corinthians 15:3-8. These 165 verses can be read in a few moments. Then, without omitting a single detail from these separate accounts, write a simple, chronological narrative of the events between the resurrection and the ascension: what happened first, second, and so on; who said what, when; and where these things happened.

Since the gospels do not always give precise times of day, it is permissible to make educated guesses. The narrative does not have to pretend to present a perfect picture–it only needs to give at least one plausible account of all of the facts. Additional explanation of the narrative may be set apart in parentheses. The important condition to the challenge, however, is that not one single biblical detail be omitted. Fair enough?

I have tried this challenge myself. I failed. An Assembly of God minister whom I was debating a couple of years ago on a Florida radio show loudly proclaimed over the air that he would send me the narrative in a few days. I am still waiting. After my debate at the University of Wisconsin, “Jesus of Nazareth: Messiah or Myth,” a Lutheran graduate student told me he accepted the challenge and would be contacting me in about a week. I have never heard from him. Both of these people, and others, agreed that the request was reasonable and crucial. Maybe they are slow readers.

[ Continued... ]

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It’s funny because it’s complete fiction and they accidentally figured it out.

#Dan Barker #Easter #christianity #jesus christ #resurrection #resurrection myth #crucifixion #crucifixion myth #bible #bible study #bible myths #myth of jesus #Easter challenge #religion #religion is a mental illness

[aregebidan]

“who are you? i don’t even know your name” “don’t be in such a rush. you will give me a name someday. and i live in terror of that day” / “i’m afraid to turn around. not of your anger, though. i’m afraid i’ll see nobody” / “go on dreaming. when you dream about my likeness you create it” / “when you loved no one you never thought of death” / “give her proof of her love” “shall i?” “kill her before she sees you” “no!” “then kill yourself” “how?” “let her go”

literally who is doing it like them. no one. no one. no one.

#panna a netvor #turn my ashes into a fucking. dvd of this cinematic masterpiece #what if the beauty and the beast had reverse pygmalion and galatea but also reverse orpheus and eurydice— #—and also just the most banger lines to ever fuck the mind of man even in their depowered slightly clunky youtube english subtitle form #to understand the script in the original would be too much for me. i’d drop dead on the spot. i’m completely serious #what if. creation myth love story death tale gothic thriller. and there was exquisite music and a bird guy with an evil internal monologue #whose only wish ever was to be rewritten revised killed off and resurrected and irrevocably changed by love……oh i’m going insane #film

[unspokenstydia]

✰ ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, GOT THE WRONG INSIDES. ✰

THEO RAEKEN: THE KINTSUGI KID “Real pain is emotional pain. That is the kind of pain that lasts.” 

#it’s theo’s false tears of deceit versus these moments of real emotion slipping through. the terror of letting himself feel. #the impossibility of it. and then it’s the dread doctors’ syringe and how carelessly and callously he would give life back and rip it away #doling out both resurrection and murder with this drilled-in emotional distance. perfecting every action to be so necessarily heartless #because bodies were test sites and weapons and /his/ body was an appendage in itself of someone else’s agenda— #versus his own flesh upon gabe’s in this one selfless moment. and how his touch is gentle and light and his hesitance underscores every beat #and how inundating the revelation is—that he’s capable of this. that it's all possible for him. #and how perilous it must be to look forward from that post-hell hinge point and know that the death of the myth he was promised is only the #beginning of his life. and all of this is difficult and painful in ways that are brand new but must (avowedly/somehow/please) #be worth that pain. #theo raeken #flashing gif #tw: blood #twedit #teenwolfedit #teen wolf #fyteenwolf #cody christian #tvedit #fall out boy #so much (for) stardust #there's something so staggering about the fact that theo (in cody's imagination) stays. #he's not much of a pack animal and scott's never going to forgive him and it doesn't matter who forgets because mason won't and #he'sbarelyevenhumanlikeacheapknockoffdotheylookredtoyouithinkyoupushedherandithinkyoulikedit and #he stays. #like. i don’t know how i’m expected to be okay about any of this! i’m undone!! it’s shattering and stunning #and so is the kintsugi kid in the context of like. my insides are copper and i’d kill to make them gold / do you ever get the feeling that #your insides and your outsides don’t really go together? / i wonder at the way that someone can write thousands and thousands of pages about #my insides / it’s about feeling all right and feeling safe in your own skin / on the bright side got the wrong insides !! #and [back to theo] this chorus as a callback to ‘when i’m just the ghost of nothing nothing’ in from now on we are enemies #anyway . will the real hard hard pills to swallow please stand up.

[thebandghostofficial]

[MESSAGE FROM THE CLERGY]

We wish to inform you Metal Myths returns to where it all started...the Sunset Strip.

Today at #TheWhiskyAGoGo, from 4 PM PT until late, Metal Myths have curated the archival exhibition Ghost: Reverence and Resurrection.

Although the event is free, there will limited tours given.

Thank you for your support.

#Ghost #The Band Ghost #Ghost Band #Metal Myths #Reverence and Resurrection #Whiskey A Go-Go #Papa Emeritus 0 #Papa Emeritus Nihil #Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic #Metal #Music #Rock #Rock n Roll #Message From The Clergy

[yoga-onion]

Death of the king of the waning half-year - The end of the beginning, the beginning of the end …

Legends and myths about trees

Celtic beliefs in trees (7)

I for Idho (Yew) - December 21st Winter Solstice

Colour: dark green, Star: Saturn, Gemstone: olivine, Gender: female, Metal: lead, Element: earth, Patron: Banba, Hecate

Symbols: resurrection, death + rebirth, eternity, path to meet ancestors + land of the soul

Today is the winter solstice, also called the hibernal solstice, the day in the northern hemisphere when the sun is at its lowest altitude in the south and day is shortest and night longest during the year (reversed in the southern hemisphere).

Yew is an evergreen tree with dark green leaves and red berries. The yew is a robust tree with a thick girth and an extremely long life. It is probably the longest lived of all trees.

As soon as the downward reaching branches reach the ground, the tree begins to grow strongly, as if it has been reborn as a new tree. The eldest living yew tree is in Europe is said to be the Fortingall Yew, in Perthshire, Scotland, and it has been estimated between 3000 to 9000 years old.

In addition, the yew's hollowed-out heartwood, especially when wet, looks like a flayed animal, and when cut it appears to bleed, so the yew is increasingly said to be a sacred tree. Yew sticks were believed to be able to divine the future, and yew sticks were used as 'writing pillars' to engrave the Ogham script, as they could be preserved almost forever.

As the druids believed the natural law of reincarnation, where the soul becomes reborn as another person, the yew was seen as a protector of the soul during the journey to the Otherworld. Some believe that the road to the Otherworld is shaded by rows of yew trees. Furthermore, the yew is said to stop any obstacles caused by evil spirits from the Otherworld.

As a sacred 'tree of immortality', believed to protect and purify the dead, yews are often planted in cemeteries, many of which are as old as the church or much older.

木にまつわる伝説・神話

ケルト人の樹木の信仰 (7)

IはIdho (ｲﾁｲ) - 12月21日 冬至

“衰えゆく半年の王の死 〜 始まりの終わり、終わりの始まり…”

色: 深緑、星: 土星、宝石: オリビン、性: 女性、金属: 鉛、要素: 土、守護神: バンバ、ヘカテ

シンボル: 復活、死＋再生、永遠、先祖に出会える道＋魂の国

今日は冬至、北半球では太陽の南中高度が最も低く、一年の間で昼が最も短く夜が最も長くなる日(南半球では逆転する)。

イチイは濃い緑色の葉を持ち、赤い果実を実らせる常緑樹。イチイはたくましい樹木で胴回りが太くなり、ものすごく長生きをする。おそらくすべての木の中で最も長生きする木といえるだろう。下方に伸びた枝が地面に着くと、新しい木に生まれ変わったかのように、力強く生育を始める。ヨーロッパで最も古いイチイの木は、スコットランドのパースシャーにある『フォーティンゴールのイチイ』と言われており、樹齢は3000年から9000年と推定されている。

また、幹の中が空洞になったイチイの心材は、とくに湿っていると、一見皮を剥がれた動物のようで、切れば血を流すようにも見えるため、ますますイチイは聖なる木だといわれるようになった。

イチイの杖は未来を占うことができるとされ、またイチイの棒はほぼ永遠に保存できるため、オガム文字を刻印する「文字棒」として使用された。ドルイドは、魂が別の人間に生まれ変わるという輪廻転生の自然法則を信じていたので、イチイはあの世への旅の間、魂を守ってくれるものと考えられていた。冥界に至る道はイチイ並木の木陰になっているという説もある。さらに、イチイは異界の悪霊が起こすいかなる障害をも食い止めるという。

神聖なる「不死の木」として、死者を守り浄化すると信じられたイチイは墓地によく植えられ、その多くは樹齢が教会と同じか、またはそれよりずっと古い。

#yew #sacred tree #durids #celtic belief #tree legend #tree myths #celts #celtic mythology #winter solstice #fortingall yew #death #resurrection #rebirth #eternity #the land of soul #philosophy #nature #art

[see-arcane]

The Underappreciated Undead Squad: Clarimonde, Lord Ruthven, and the Family of the Vourdalak

If you’ve been keeping track, you’ll know I’ve been getting sucked into a resurgence of old school bloodsucker literature. Not just with the fun of Dracula Daily—thanks again, Matt Kirkland!—but revisiting some even older vampiric favorites who have been kicking since long before the Count started planning his English holiday. From left to right above, we see Gorcha, patriarch of Aleksey Tolstoy’s, “The Family of the Vourdalak,” (1884), Clarimonde, of Théophile Gautier’s, “La Morte Amoureuse,” (1836), translated into English as ‘Clarimonde’ or, ‘The Dead Woman in Love,’ and Lord Ruthven, of John William Polidori’s, “The Vampyre,” (1819).

I’ve been dropping hefty blurbs about each of them, but I figured a master post was in order. Much as Dracula Daily is/will continue to pick up its pace as autumn ticks along, I know there are folks out there itching for a broader classic vampire fix than just another reread of, “Carmilla.”*

*Who does not get to sit at these guys’ table, considering she has a web series, a movie, and a number of animated cameos (hi, Vampire Hunter D and Castlevania babes), while everyone on this guest list has no mainstream spotlight, period. Sorry, Millie.

 Assorted Synopses and Story Links Below!

1.    Clarimonde—“La Morte Amoureuse” (Post) (Story PDF)

POV: You’re a newly minted priest doing priest stuff in the middle of Le Bumbfuck Village in Nowhere, France. You fell in love with the hottest party girl in Paris. She dies. She resurrects herself and appears in your room looking like this ^^^ saying she came back to life because she’s into you. She asks if you’re down to run away to Venice with her. Wyd?

Oh, Clarimonde. She’s probably the best way to (un)die you’ll ever meet in classic literature. Gautier wrote her story with all kinds of ribald and religiously risqué (if not damn near blasphemous) joy, and managed to sneak a genuinely heartstring-tugging romance in. She’s probably the first vampiric character to ever be written in a truly sympathetic light, while also being one of few early seductive/bawdy female characters to not be given the ye olde ‘EW NO EVIL POWERFUL LILITH CHARACTER BOOO’ treatment.

2.    Lord Ruthven— “The Vampyre” (Post) (Story PDF)

POV: You’re the tenth adulteress tonight to try to get with the sexy stranger who lives to make everyone around him miserable (sexily). All you’ve managed to do is interrupt his game, in which he plans to bankrupt a father of seven, followed by maybe hunting down his innocent daughter to stick a dagger in her for a midnight sip. Oh, you were after a blood sugar daddy? Too bad. Take that thirsty bullshit to Carfax and duke it out with Renfield.

Lord Ruthven is the original undead bastard. His hobby is ruining the lives of good people, driving virtuous girls to madness and/or murdering them for a drink, and collecting fancy bejeweled blades for a little flair with the latter. Our guy is Not Interested in romance as anything other than a performance to get close to a young lady for the purposes of either ruination or slaughter. Nor is he about to churn out any more of his kind willy-nilly. Why bother? Maybe that shit flies for those needy Transylvanian hoarder types, but he prefers to go solo. He seems like a unique polar opposite to most ‘teaching a moral’ monsters—in his story, only the purest of pure mega-good characters suffer. If you’re anything less than saintly—see: horny chicks, folks with personal vices, et cetera—Ruthven either ignores you outright or tosses you some cash to aid your selfish aims. Thanks, man.

3.    Gorcha and Kin— “The Family of the Vourdalak” (Post) (Story PDF)

POV: You are a traveler meeting the dead and knowing eyes of Gorcha and his family. This ends one of two ways. Version 1: Gorcha and his family decide they hate you. There is only room for murderous hate or consuming love in their still hearts, as is the condition of the Vourdalak. They will nail your head over the door. Version 2: Gorcha and his family have decided they love you. So much so that they must empty your veins and welcome you into the family. Forever. What’s that, traveler? You’d like to leave before they decide either way? Who said that was an option?

Vampirism and love have always managed to overlap throughout the genre. But the condition of the Vourdalak flavor is especially fixated on it. The gist is that where ordinary vampires will target whoever, whenever, Vourdalaks are driven specifically to drink from their loved ones. Family, friends, lovers. It’s how whole villages have gone underground, with kin and neighbors preying on each other in a warped display of grim thirst and affectionate preservation. On the flip side, those not loved get put down. Messily. It would almost be sweet if things like ‘consent’ or ‘neutrality’ could come into it, but no. You are loved and kept or unloved and slaughtered. The only third option is to run—if they let you.

 I really recommend giving all these guys a read. Right now, we’re enjoying a bit of a vampiric/Dracula renaissance. Silly stuff like the What We Do in the Shadows series is going full blast, Castlevania is entering another run, and the Count has a whole slew of movies lined up. While I very much did not care for this year’s, The Invitation, 2023 is due to dish out a fun dark comedic romp called Renfield centered on our favorite inventor of the Victorian small-scale turducken (with Nicholas Cage as Dracula!), and a genuine horror movie offering with, Last Voyage of the Demeter, directed by the same man behind The Autopsy of Jane Doe. Promising stuff!

My fingers are crossed that between all that and the clear popularity of Dracula Daily, we can dust off some other coffins and, maybe, give these older undead characters some overdue love. (At a safe distance.)

#before anyone comes at me about Clarimonde's period inaccurate dress #1) I know. #2) Her introduction has her wearing the most VIVID rainbow palette finery I've ever read. She deserves color! #3) I always mentally tied her with the Psyche myth #the Goddess of Soul with the butterfly motif and a whole story dedicated to love and th breaking of trust #also death and resurrection; so you know--I have my excuses #4) I can't not picture her being a carefree trendsetter hedonist #if she wants her bosom up and bodiced with gold jewels butterflies and ye olde gauzy sparkles all over? #She Will Have It #Ruthven just always struck me as a russet/old bloodstain palette kind of guy so ^^^ #Gorcha's tale paints him as corpse-colored and the story takes place in the cold #lots of grays and deep unhealthy blues/silvers seemed right #plus a stylish accessory head #anyway #vampires is fun #and there's more than Dracula and Carmilla to play with in the classic lit #go meet them and get inspired #clarimonde #la morte amoureuse #lord ruthven #the vampyre #gorcha #the family of the vourdalak #dracula #dracula daily #carmilla #reading recs

[lotlizard93]

Man everything happens in LA nowadays huh 😭

#a speaks #the band ghost #seven inches of satanic panic #metal myths #ghost reverence and resurrection

[itspileofgoodthings]

didn’t believe the 10 minute version of all too well was real until she released it

#I was like ‘that is a fan-created myth that taylor has indulged. It’s not real’ #part of me still kind of thinks she only put together as it stands now when she re-recorded #in terms of the sequence of it and the way it just all fits beautifully #but also literally maybe not! and the whole thing was as it was constructed at the time #I always believed she wrote a ton and then edited it down but not in terms of anything that needed resurrecting #which. I’m so glad she did. #anyway the creativity of her mind continues to shake me to my core every single day

[timetravel-tv]

OUT TODAY - TWO NEW MYTH MAKERS!

We're delighted to announce the release of MATTHEW ROBINSON and PAUL CORNELL's MYTH MAKERS!

As you all know, MATTHEW directed two DOCTOR WHO stories, RESURRECTION OF THE DALEKS and ATTACK OF THE CYBERMEN ... he's interviewed by IAN KUBIAK at WHOOVERVILLE last year. This is a really great release and is specially extended only for this MYTH MAKERS release.

PAUL CORNELL was interviewed at MYTH MAKERS LIVE in March by LISA BOWERMAN. This is a really frank and revealing interview by LISA, who obviously has a great interest in how PAUL created BERNICE SUMMERFIELD! PAUL talks about his writing career and how fan fiction led to writing for DOCTOR WHO. Unmissable! (This MYTH MAKERS won't be appearing in future THE DOCTORS releases).

Both available from: www.timetraveltv.com at £11.50 for the DVD (incl P&P) or to Download and Stream.

#Doctor Who #Matthew Robinson #Paul Cornell #Resurrection of the Daleks #Attack of the Cybermen #Lisa Bowerman #Bernice Summerfield #Myth Makers

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

IF JESUS HAD DIED IN 2000

Paul would be writing his various letters* in the 2020's *the letters that most scholars consider genuine; Galatians, 1 Thessalonians, 1-2 Corinthians, Romans, Philipians & Philemon - a generation later and having never known Jesus in person

Gospel of Mark won't be written until around the 2030's - with no claims of Jesus' virgin birth, ascension and divinity

Gospel of Matthew won't be written until around the 2040's - with the first record of virgin birth, Bethlehem origin, guards & angel at tomb

Gospel of Luke won't be written until around the 2050's - with the first record of a post-resurrection Jesus eating, appearing & disappearing and ascension to heaven

Gospel of John won't be written until around the 2060's - with the first record of the incarnation of Jesus (god-man), divinity claims of Jesus, the seven "I am" sayings of Jesus and Jesus' lengthy discourse with Pilate

This sure sounds like something that people just made up.

#christianity #jesus christ #bible #gospels #bible study #saint paul #gospel of mark #gospel of matthew #gospel of luke #gospel of john #resurrection myth #resurrection #virgin birth #virgin birth myth #origin of the bible #obvious fiction #religion #religion is a mental illness

[vulnerasti-cor-meum]

how is the doctrine of the Dormition-and-Assumption of the virgin mary not in the same line of mytho-poetry as that of Persephone and Alcestis and Iphigenia viz. young woman suffers a death (real or ritual) and is snatched back up to life by a god (Alcestis/Iphigenia) or brings life/fertility with her (Persephone)

#I mean death-and-resurrection is the Western Ur-Myth really but still #thank you Northrop Frye

[brightgnosis]

"What is Absinthe? Myth, History, and Resurrection - Opening and Drinking from a 100 Year Old Bottle" by ESOTERICA

#What is Absinthe? Myth History and Resurrection #Opening and Drinking from a 100 Year Old Bottle #ESOTERICA #Herbalism #Food Is the Ultimate Love Language #Ye True Olden Days

[chloeworships]

Not gonna lie watching Anakin burn just brought me to tears 😭 lawd.

I forgot one other video:

Can someone please tell me where I can purchase one of these healing tank-chamber things? 😅😂😅😂😅😂 I need one STAT.

PS. God said “ARE YOU READY?”

👀

#men #healing #restoration #resurrection #rebirth #THE MAN THEH MYTH THE LEGEND #TRANSFORMATION #renewed #athletes

[asiss-s]

#tony stark #iron man #resurrection #man myth immortal #Rhodey #warmachineROX

[ai-18]

The blockbuster film The Woman King has resurrected the myth that slavery furnishes wealth. While irate critics argue that the film downplays the fact that the Dahomey Empire derived its wealth from slavery, however, this observation wrongly conflates political success with human flourishing.

#The blockbuster film The Woman King has resurrected the myth that slavery furnishes wealth. While irate critics argue that the film downplay

[willtheweaver]

Suspiciously specific and specifically vague writing prompts

• Extraterrestrial archaeologists in the far future uncover your body. They then write a scientific paper on humans based off of what they found out about you.

• Retell your favorite myth or fairy tale in a modern setting

• Turn a modern of futuristic story into a mythological epic

• Your OCs realize they are fictional characters. *Cue chaos and existential crisis*

• Good news: you’ve reincarnated into your favorite video game. Bad news: you’re a self-aware NPC (Al-la VLDL)

• Have you ever wondered what a tree thinks?

• A murder victim’s ghost does everything in their power to get the attention of the dim-witted detective assigned to the case

• Hero is given everything in order to stop the apocalypse and yet they still find a way to fail

• Make a grand story out of something mundane

• What would happen if the dancing plague occurred today?

• You must use tropes that you hate, and are totally overused. Find some way to make them work;turn them on their head, use malicious compliance, totally invert them

• What is the real reason why no one turned up to Professor Hawkins’ party

•A white hat, a blogger, and an AI must team up to stop an international hacking ring before they start WW 3 (bonus if none of the unlikely heroes get along)

• An atheist is deemed worthy enough to receive the mantle of god. Awkward… and what exactly are the philosophical implications?

• You’re a mimic. Describe a day in the life of tricking (and devouring) foolish adventures.

• Someone from the past is resurrected. They go on a rampage when they find out that [great deed/feat of engineering/ work of genius] is being credited to [aliens/Atlantis/ Hollow Earth dwellers, etc.]

#writing #creative writing #writing inspiration #writing prompts #writer #writers #writers and poets #writing community #writer on tumblr #writeblr