And like Alexander, they’ll probably write about Trump, as a powerful leader, in about 500 yrs from now. All accounts on Alexander were written 400-600 yrs after his reign. How accurate could it be? But people claim it as the gospel.
Oral information, for 500 yrs, and then gets written down. I see in no form or fashion that can be accurate. Literally impossible. Even that game people play, how quickly information gets changed. Now add a few centuries. The say history is written by those who’ve hanged there enemies. In this case even the enemies are dust. As far as we know, the man never existed.
It’s interesting we talked about this in church today. Even as American citizens, we cannot prove George Washington even existed. So what do we use? Written testimonies. People who were there, and touched him. Bled with him. And shared victories with him. History was made and wrote down. Not delayed for half a millennium.
President Trump is likely the most powerful and cunning leader the world has known since Alexander the Great.
And like Alexander, they’ll probably write about Trump, as a powerful leader, in about 500 yrs from now. All accounts on Alexander were written 400-600 yrs after his reign. How accurate could it be? But people claim it as the gospel.
In a time when there were no books and oral tradition was the most powerful means to institutionalise knowledge? Quite
Oral information, for 500 yrs, and then gets written down. I see in no form or fashion that can be accurate. Literally impossible. Even that game people play, how quickly information gets changed. Now add a few centuries. The say history is written by those who’ve hanged there enemies. In this case even the enemies are dust. As far as we know, the man never existed.
It’s interesting we talked about this in church today. Even as American citizens, we cannot prove George Washington even existed. So what do we use? Written testimonies. People who were there, and touched him. Bled with him. And shared victories with him. History was made and wrote down. Not delayed for half a millennium.
If we thought this way, Christianity would not have existed at all.