XPost: alt.atheism
From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com
On 7/15/2025 12:41 PM, % wrote:
> Dawn Flood wrote:
>> On 7/15/2025 12:34 PM, % wrote:
>>> Dawn Flood wrote:
>>>> On 7/15/2025 8:26 AM, Attila wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 22:46:38 -0400, JTEM
>>>>> in alt.atheism with message-id
>>>>> <104siae$1q7bq$4@dont-email.me> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 7/11/25 8:04 PM, Dawn Flood wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Are you an historian?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What answers can alter the fact that you wet yourself over
>>>>>> a discussion on discerning history from mythology?
>>>>>
>>>>> Often mythology is based on history but the difference is
>>>>> that history has multiple verifying sources or actual
>>>>> tangible evidence. Mythology is just mythology.
>>>>>
>>>>> Troy is a good example. It was mythology until the actual
>>>>> city was found. Of course, the events mythology says
>>>>> occurred there are still mythology since there is no
>>>>> evidence they actually occurred.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, the conversations in Homer between the Gods on Mount Olympus
>>>> must be regarded as being mythological, at least until good evidence
>>>> presents itself to suggest otherwise.
>>>>
>>>> Dawn
>>>
>>> in your opinion at least until good evidence presents
>>> itself to suggest otherwise.
>>
>> What's the alternative? If a student wishes to believe that the South
>> won the American Civil War, then that is their right! They are even
>> free to argue for their position.
>>
> which has nothing to do with the original topic here ,
> we aren't students and my country has never had a north / south war
With respect to United States history, the South lost the Civil, the
United States of America having been victorious in that conflict. Of
course, if anyone, student or otherwise, wishes to believe in the
alternative, such is their prerogative.
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