Ponder.
Did Ray Bradbury exist?
Bradbury died Tuesday night in Los Angeles, his agent Michael Congdon confirmed.
Bradbury’s daughter confirmed his death to the Associated Press on Wednesday morning. She said her father died Tuesday night in Southern California.
Legendary science-fiction author Ray Bradbury passed away Wednesday morning in Los Angeles.
How
do we account for discrepant reports regarding the death of Ray
Bradbury?
“This is evidence that the obituaries for Bradbury were
written decades later,” said Bart Ehrman, professor of religious studies at
Chapel Hill. “Bradbury really died on Wednesday morning. The report that he died
Tuesday night, but his death was confirmed on Wednesday morning, is an orthodox
scribal harmonization of two contradictory traditions.”
“It's a telltale clue that Bradbury never existed,” said
Richard Carrier, renowned author of Proving History. “If Bradbury really was the
world-famous figure that legend imputes to him, it’s inconceivable that major
news outlets would bungle the date of his death–especially in the information
age.”
According to Robert Price, “The statement that ‘he died
Tuesday night in Los Angeles, his agent Michael Congdon confirmed’ is a
legendary embellishment, redacting the earlier tradition that he died Wednesday
morning. The redactor is deifying Bradbury as an exalted, celestial figure.
Notice that his agent is named after the Archangel Michael. Angels are “agents.”
In the Bible, angels appear to people at night in dreams. And notice that the
legendary place of his demise is the ‘City of Angels.’ So this represents the
apotheosis of Bradbury, as a dying and rising god–like Hercules and
Adonis.”
