(September 1, 2012 at 4:11 pm)Atom Wrote:(September 1, 2012 at 2:05 am)Minimalist Wrote: Correct. Close association with xtian bullshit convinced Ehrman that it was merely bullshit.Exactly! This is why Ehrman's claim that all serious historians believe Jesus was a real person has exceptional credibility. He and the other skeptical historians I quoted would be predisposed to the anti-Christian viewpoint.
And in the fashion of reductio ad absurdum, all "serious historians" don't believe in the resurrection or Jesus' deity, therefore, you shouldn't either. So why are you still a Christian, Atom?
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).