Is the Bible Mein Kampf?
Robert M. Price Let me assume the role of Rod Serling for a moment. Imagine yourself in a world in which there is a powerful militant sect devoted to the worship of the gods of ancient Greece. These strange zealots not only believe in the literal, personal existence of Zeus, Athena, Hera, and the others. They also hold Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey to be inspired and inerrant scripture (even though the more educated among them sometimes suggest that the epics are to be taken allegorically, when things get too messy, e.g., all those seductions of mortal females by Zeus). These well-meaning but obnoxious believers are insistent in the media and from every public soapbox that Western society was founded upon the culture of the ancient Greeks, and that, in an age of moral decadence, only a return to the faith and scripture of the ancients can save us from wholesale ruin. Among others, or so they urge, the hero Achilles must have been a historical figure, else how can one explain the well-attes
