yuyutsu

Yes, you're right. I was in two minds about including Krishna. However, there are many parallels between him and Christ, such as his 'immaculate conception' birth.

His death also has many parallels with Christ's, even if it wasn't anywhere near as messy.

Like Christ, he welcomed his death, as a kind of sacrifice over the many young men killed in the wars fought between his clan and some other clan, and also because he thought his clan had become too arrogant.

He also, like Christ, did the ascending into 'heaven' thing.

Killarney, and pigs might fly, the whole religious thing is bunkham.

ojnab

Pointing out the parallels between religion and Anzac mythology is not to endorse either. Frankly, I'd like nothing better than for both these addled belief systems to disappear completely from the culture.

Dear Killarney,

<<Frankly, I'd like nothing better than for both these addled belief systems to disappear completely from the culture.>>

Wow, what a strong statement! Then you are a very dangerous person:

You like that more than anything - more than your family, more than you health or wealth or fame or comfort or peace or love, more than your freedom and more than your life... Then neither fear of death, even the death of your whole family, nor of prison, would stop you, then we should expect you to join a group of like-minded people that will acquire nuclear or biological weapons to destroy the world, since that would be the only way for both these belief systems to disappear completely from the culture.

I do envy your determination - if I could have that same purity of indomitable will of yours, then as a religious person, liking nothing more than God, I could unite with Him in no time. We should be thankful, though, that none of the nationalists have that same determination - or else their nation would have conquered the rest of the world in no time.

yuyutsu

What on earth are you talking about? 'I'd like nothing better ...' is purely an expression.

I've also been known to say 'I'd kill for a cup of coffee.' Does that also make me a dangerous person?

As far as I know, no one has ever had to literally die in order for me to get a caffeine fix

Thank you for clarifying, Killarney.