Re: They _don't_ have a word for it!

taliesin the storyteller scripsit:

> > Consequently there is no redemption or salvation.
But this only means that your concultures contain (as yet?)
no Christians.  The words "redemptio" and "salvatio" existed
in Latin long before Christianity was heard of (with the
primary meanings "ransom" and "preservation"), and were
consciously applied as metaphors (or more realistically,
calques of corresponding Greek metaphors).

> And then there's the entire
> "God-as-sheperd" imagery. Try to explain why a shepherd is a symbol for
> a good, supreme god to people with a hunter-gatherer/gardener mindset:
> "so you say you worship something that kill off your males, decide where
> you get to go and what to do, fatten you up, then kill you to eat you or
> sell the flesh and/or use your hides for clothes?" :)
With the exception of excess lambs, the primary product of shepherds
is wool, the removal of which does not harm the sheep.  Sheep are
usually perceived as individuals to be cared for, like dairy cattle.

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