Someone either needs head meds or different ones. Oh my gods. What a pile of tripe! I passed it along to my friend the real serious Beowulf scholar. I expect to be able to hear her screaming from her house to mine.
This is rather amusing, especially seeing as I've known many Christians who would deny even the possibility of dinosaurs exsisting -if we didn't have physical proof of them-solely because they are not mentioned specifically in the Bible.
This article is quite a bit of drivel. Good for a bit of a laugh, nonetheless :)
Yes, the all loving god put those fossils there to test your faith. If you fail the test he will torture you for all eternity. It would be funny were it not for the fact that some people believe this rubbish feverently and are willing to harm those who don't.
I'm afraid this person's knowledge of history is sorely lacking. The poem in the form we have it was composed by a Xian. If the kind of miraculous intuited knowledge of the existence of the Xian god and of Cain that the idiot invokes were feasible, there would never be "need" of missionaries. Plus the poem contains a passage about a heathen sacrifice performed by Hrothgar's Danes "because they knew no better." If that didn't tip him off that he was reading a Xian poem and had the date of the conversion wrong . . . he either read the Reader's Digest version or can't distinguish between protagonists and authors. In which case no wonder he thinks some dinosaurs survived the Flood--they appear in fiction!
i.e.: not worthy of our attention.
However, note that Beowulf scholarship is overwhelmingly Xian, more so than the poem is--the first version of the poem was undoubtedly heathen and there are traces of that attitude under the surface. Unfortunately, medieval studies attracts a lot of folks who salivate at comparing versions of
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This article is quite a bit of drivel. Good for a bit of a laugh, nonetheless :)
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Grendel as Berserker - I can see.
This article sounds about as reliable as any creationist mumbling. Sound and fury signifying nothing.
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i.e.: not worthy of our attention.
However, note that Beowulf scholarship is overwhelmingly Xian, more so than the poem is--the first version of the poem was undoubtedly heathen and there are traces of that attitude under the surface. Unfortunately, medieval studies attracts a lot of folks who salivate at comparing versions of ( ... )
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