re: #497 Obdicut

Which is fine as long as you’re looking at the history of the faiths as the faiths themselves document, but not if you’re looking at the actual history of the faiths.

You can never begin to approach the subject if you assume, at the outset, to possess a body of knowledge that supersedes or completes the scriptures; again, you make the mistake of treating it like it’s a normal human literary production.

The same goes for ALL scripture, by the way - I extend this courtesy to the texts of Christianity and Islam - they are qualitatively OTHER.