Carolina QuotesWhat a tangled web we weave when we practice to believe
Robert M. Price Connected to the Carolinas
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Robert M. Price, in The Psychology of Biblicism, a modification of the quote from Sir Walter Scott
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“What a tangled web we weave when we practice to believe” Robert M. Price. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-48E6A01A2C. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/48e6a01a2c
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Alan Dundes has shown, the gospel life of Jesus corresponds in most particulars with the worldwide paradigm of the Mythic Hero Archetype as delineated by Lord Raglan, Otto Rank, and others.
Various hearers of Jesus may well be imagined as unwittingly embellishing their Lord’s teachings as they meant to do nothing but pass them along. I cannot be too severe with the man in Monty Python's Life of Brian (of Nazareth) who thought he had heard Jesus say, “Blessed are the cheese makers,” nor of his neighbor who glossed the saying to include “any manufacturers of dairy products.”
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