{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "The thing as I see it, the thing that\u2019s been central to the development of my worldview ever since I maxed out not believing in...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/143578899018/", "html": "<p>The thing as I see it, the thing that\u2019s been central to the development of my worldview ever since I maxed out not believing in gods and assigning things human causes \u2013 growing up during the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Seminar\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus Seminar</a> \u2013 <br/></p><p>I had to deal with the fact that when you dispelled primitive myth there was still an actual human that corresponds to the mythic figure Jesus Christ, and there was an actual human that corresponds to the mythic figure Gautama Buddha, and there was an actual human that corresponds to the mythic figure Mu\u1e25ammad, and closer still there <i>was</i> Joseph Smith and ther<i>e was </i>L. Ron Hubbard <br/></p><p>and even if there weren\u2019t divine powers there \u2013 <i>especially</i> if there weren\u2019t divine powers there \u2013 that shit is within the range of human capacity and you\u2019ve got to account for that</p>"}