Re:A History of the Silmarils in the Fifth Age
by logfromblammo on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @01:13PM
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I never wondered this, because religions accumulate all kinds of internal inconsistencies as they age, and many of them weren't even all that consistent to begin with.
Humans are perfectly capable of holding two mutually incompatible ideas in our heads at the same time. That's how we would determine the winner of a contest between Batman and Ozymandias, or between Godzilla and Voltron, or between James Bond and Jack Ryan, or between Hit Girl and Nikita.
The most psychically significant incarnation of Santa is from the Childlike Wonder Mythosphere, and Jesus is from the Abrahamic Monotheist's Age of Legends. In order for them to even meet, they would have to pierce the boundary between worlds, and perhaps exist together in some mutually neutral dimension. But when they cross over, they have to adopt forms and behaviors compatible with that dimension, which is why they look like paper cutouts in South Park and have no bendable knees in LEGO Universe.
Humans are perfectly capable of holding two mutually incompatible ideas in our heads at the same time. That's how we would determine the winner of a contest between Batman and Ozymandias, or between Godzilla and Voltron, or between James Bond and Jack Ryan, or between Hit Girl and Nikita.
The most psychically significant incarnation of Santa is from the Childlike Wonder Mythosphere, and Jesus is from the Abrahamic Monotheist's Age of Legends. In order for them to even meet, they would have to pierce the boundary between worlds, and perhaps exist together in some mutually neutral dimension. But when they cross over, they have to adopt forms and behaviors compatible with that dimension, which is why they look like paper cutouts in South Park and have no bendable knees in LEGO Universe.