MatthewB comments on The Fundamental Question - Less Wrong

43 Post author: MBlume 19 April 2010 04:09PM

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Comment author: MatthewB 25 April 2010 07:37:04AM 1 point [-]

It isn't stuff that made it into the modern canon, but in the Early Christian Church, Myth of this type appeared all over the place from the Jewish Sources, in an attempt to integrate it into various Christian Sects.

To be fair this stuff isn't Christian mythology in the way that Adam and Eve, or Loaves and Fishes is Christian mythology. It's just religious fiction.

Isn't it ALL just religious fiction?

Comment author: wedrifid 25 April 2010 08:09:15AM *  4 points [-]

Isn't it ALL just religious fiction?

The key word in Jack's sentence was "just". The concept of 'canonical' is important, to religious believers and Star Trec fans alike.