Little Evidence =Evidence?

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I liked this quote:

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"Sallie McFague, in Models of God, argues that religious thinking requires a rethinking of the ways in which religious language employs metaphor. Religious language is for the most part neither propositional nor assertoric. Rather, it functions not to render strict definitions, but to give accounts. To say, for example, "God is mother," is neither to define God as a mother nor to assert an identity between them, but rather to suggest that we consider what we do not know how to talk about--relating to God - through the metaphor of a mother. Moreover, no single metaphor can function as the sole way of expressing any aspect of a religious belief."

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This reminded me of Julian Jaynes. He claimed the bicameral mind did not have the ability to understand metaphors. Most of the religious documents of today, originated when people lacked this ability to clearly associate words/stories with reality.

I think the miracles written about in the Bible were either poorly translated prophecies or misunderstood metaphors.

For what it's worth, Julian Jaynes theorized about this in his book "The Origin of Consciousness and the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind".