Anachronism—a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists.
For Christianity to be true we have to go back in time and suppress the invention of writing. Jews were polytheistic before writing. The real message of Judeo-Christian origins lay in the song, dance, and rituals of the old world that were universal before the development of writing. Before people learned to think in terms of literacy, or lineal thinking, they thought cosmically—nature was their reference point and the mythology their canvas, not the pages and letters of books.
For Mormonism to be true we need to go back in time and stop the internet. But really, all of Mormonism and the Book of Mormon are a anachronisms—out of time and place. The Book of Mormon is a book about a completely literate religion, culture, commerce, and government which did not exist EVER in pre-Columbian America, and there is zero archeological evidence it ever did. The Book of Mormon is a history book from a time written history did not exist. It’s very narrative and historical nature condemns it’s authenticity.
Oral people mythologize history. Literate people historicize myth*. We take the oral tradition and turn it into myth, where the myth itself was a representation of something far different than literate people can even know how to think, or why. It was polytheistic, but upon the advent of writing it became monotheistic. They had no choice but to make the change—thinking had changed forever.
To oral people truth is a cosmic fact, synchronized to cosmic events and nature. To literate societies truth is historical fact. Not only is monotheism a product of literacy, history is a product of literacy. Monotheism is a natural consequence of literacy*—and is predictable. It isn’t true. It is a natural result of writing, fully immersed at the advent of printing.
The earliest writings of the Old Testament regards an oral mythology recorded at the early onset of literacy, which oral tradition does not translate its meaning to alphabetic writing. The meaning is lost in literacy—and is lost without the accompanying dance and symbolism. Even Pythagoras danced his classes as the teaching motif, but eventually the ease of alphabetic writing overtook traditions that built the greatest structures of Greek architecture and and around the world.
It is during the transition from oral culture to writing culture (where the writing is still about the ritual) that we have our greatest architectural achievement around the world. Then comes the WORD— the written word is the beginning of history and literate thinking that always leads to monotheism.
THIS VIDEO is ultimately debunks any chance of Mormonism to be genuine, but is also a very interesting tool about the development of written language and the unavoidable development of monotheism.
*excerpts by Dr. John Lundwall
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