St. Columba's hut found

[Amarok]

There was one bad apostle who was a very bad source . So nope still you

[Huggy Bear]

Who are you talking about?

[Thumpalumpacus]

Archaeologists have located one of the most important buildings in the history of Western European Christianity – but it’s not a vast cathedral or an impressive tomb, but merely a humble wattle and daub hut on a remote windswept island.

Using radiocarbon dating techniques and other evidence, the  scholars –  from the University of Glasgow – believe they have demonstrated that the tiny five-metre square building was almost certainly the daytime home of early medieval Scotland’s most important saint, St Columba.

http://www.independent.co.uk/News/scienc...34366.html

Oddly enough, they couldn't find any evidence of the miracles which presumably got him beatified.

[Amarok]

The slender man

[Huggy Bear]

*emphasis mine*

A practice that continues till this very day...




What exactly is your point?

You can't be as stupid as this post, can you?

Please enlighten us with your superior intellect, why is that post stupid?

[Thumpalumpacus]

Please enlighten us with your superior intellect, why is that post stupid?

Call us when their historicity is doubted as much as your deity's.

[Huggy Bear]

Please enlighten us with your superior intellect, why is that post stupid?

Call us when their historicity is doubted as much as your deity's.

Except it's not doubted as much as you think it is...

Remind me of how many Christians / Jews there are..

Christians 2.2 billion

Heck even Muslims (1.6 billion) believe Jesus existed and was at minimum a prophet, so that works out to be about an estimated 3.8 billion believers. The world population is estimated at 7.5 billion.

So believers slightly out number unbelievers...

[Thumpalumpacus]

Except it's not doubted as much as you think it is...

Remind me of how many Christians / Jews there are..

Christians 2.2 billion

Heck even Muslims (1.6 billion) believe Jesus existed and was at minimum a prophet, so that works out to be about an estimated 3.8 billion believers. The world population is estimated at 7.5 billion.

So believers slightly out number unbelievers...

An appeal to numbers is no argument. Those believers have no more access to sources than Min, whom you chided for that exact problem.

But if that's what you want to go with, how many folks dispute the existence of Lincoln or Washington? I'd be willing to bet it's a damned sight smaller than doubters of Christ, especially in learned circles.

[FatAndFaithless]

We have documents that are specifically written by Washington and Lincoln, with their signatures and responses from other folks to them directly in letters, diaries, speeches, etc. We have newspaper articles and pictures (of Lincoln), and paintings of Washington from the time he was actually alive. We don't have anything like that for Jesus, so I'm not sure why Huggy thinks Washington and Lincoln are at all comparable.

[Thumpalumpacus]

We have documents that are specifically written by Washington and Lincoln, with their signatures and responses from other folks to them directly in letters, diaries, speeches, etc.  We have newspaper articles and pictures (of Lincoln), and paintings of Washington from the time he was actually alive.  We don't have anything like that for Jesus, so I'm not sure why Huggy thinks Washington and Lincoln are at all comparable.

Because faith.