@nprofile1q... I find his point about "singular revelatory events" (aka, the "This changes everything") arising from Christianity being most fascinating.
Why?
Time and time again, I've been getting increasingly frustrated with how so many people have such a fervour for finding and then cargo culting "silver bullets": i.e. "The one solution that fixes everything!"
This is especially prevalent in tech circles
It's maddening how religiously folks start pursuing these things... ugh!
I guess this also feeds into all those "chosen one" story tropes too... Though in those cases, I think it's more about simplifying / streamlining the narrative, which is important for keeping the storyline focussed + comprehendible.
Then again, we must remember that "The Bible" is really just a bunch of books, telling stories written by a bunch of different folk, a long long time ago. Stories intended to be read out by a learned orator / storyteller, in a way that remains digestable in chunks constrained by the limits of most people's attention spans + their ability to comprehend stories they hear.
