Every story is the Bible story, and every hero is a Jesus figure, in one way or another.
But because we think the bible was written by God, instead of story writers like ourselves, we think we must worship it as if it were better than all the rest. It's a superior story, we insist, because of the author, who we imagine to be a far better writer than ourselves.
Caesar, in the Planet of the Apes, for example, is Adam, Moses, Jesus, "God," and even Cain and Able, all at the same time.
So we fall in love with the characters, and willingly break all of the "commandments" given to us by our hero, just to defend his "good name."
This is like falling in love with Hamlet and therefore insisting that Shakespeare must be God. And too defend the "holy name" of Shakespeare, we are willingly to surpass anything Iago was guilty of, and revel in doing so for all the same reasons.
But because we think the bible was written by God, instead of story writers like ourselves, we think we must worship it as if it were better than all the rest. It's a superior story, we insist, because of the author, who we imagine to be a far better writer than ourselves.
Caesar, in the Planet of the Apes, for example, is Adam, Moses, Jesus, "God," and even Cain and Able, all at the same time.
So we fall in love with the characters, and willingly break all of the "commandments" given to us by our hero, just to defend his "good name."
This is like falling in love with Hamlet and therefore insisting that Shakespeare must be God. And too defend the "holy name" of Shakespeare, we are willingly to surpass anything Iago was guilty of, and revel in doing so for all the same reasons.
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