DonT,

You PROBABLY need to change your name from WYSIWYG. To WYGCFDB (What You Get Comes From Don's Butt.)

Butt missle one
I didn't say "explanations"

I said deal with the tragedies.

"Nineteenth century explorers and colonists in Africa have written reams of material on how the native populations deified those forces of nature which were beyond their understanding, just as the Ancient Greeks and Romans deified the same things. "

The Greeks and Romans BLAMED natural phenomena on the God's Apollo towed the sun with his horses, Zeus threw thunderbolts. And where do you get off comparing modern peoples to much more primitive hypothetical cave men?

"Personality cult religions gradually displaced these primitive ideas"

I was speculating about the FIRST time you IDIOT. What gradually replaced the FIRST time does not disprove that that FIRST time happened one way or another.

Of course all of the above has nothing to do with the veracity of what I said. It is just pointing out the silliness of your arguments.

The silliest part was that you got so upset and abusive and worked your self up to the point that you would spew this nonsense to berate me over a JOKE!!

Yes it was a joke. It was a joke based on a Ricky Gervais movie about the only liar in the world. It was a joke and an allegory to try to answer Gillymoor's question in a lighthearted way.

You may be arrogant and silly enough to seriously speculate about the actions of people who now only exist as fossil fragments. I am not.