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**robvalue** · (This post was last modified: July 9, 2015 at 12:44 am by robvalue.)

This is a poll for atheists as it would be pointless for Christians to answer. But anyone can comment of course.

How would you compare the probability that Jesus was actually the biblical God (or the son of) to the probability that Sauron as described in Lord of the Rings existed at some point?

I'm granting a single historical Jesus that correlates with most of the NT for the sake of argument.

I vote less likely, since it's a more fantastical claim (that the God character exists compared to Sauron; the latter is more plausible).

ignoramus · July 9, 2015 at 12:45 am

So it's official!
He didn't exist, right?

**Spooky** · July 9, 2015 at 12:50 am

Much less likely. About the same odds he was Caucasian too.

Pizza · July 9, 2015 at 12:54 am

How many claims to divinity have been made in history? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pe...ed_deities

**Salacious B. Crumb** · July 9, 2015 at 1:09 am

I'll say less likely that jesus was the son of god, than Sauron actually existing at some point in history. I'll say, if jesus, the man existed, it's much more likely that he was a fraud than Sauron actually existing.

**Minimalist** · July 9, 2015 at 1:53 am

Who's Sauron?

ignoramus · July 9, 2015 at 1:56 am

LOTR....

**robvalue** · July 9, 2015 at 2:10 am

He's kind of like an evil God in the Lord of the Rings fantasy stories, but with blatantly less power than "unlimited". He can't be destroyed so it seems, but he can be beaten.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauron

Longhorn · July 9, 2015 at 2:14 am

Much less likely. Sauron is easier to explain than god

And a purportedly magical Caucasian zombie Jew -_-

**robvalue** · July 9, 2015 at 3:11 am

Sauron actually explains "evil" quite nicely as well Wink

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Poll: Probability Jesus was God (or son of) compared to probability Sauron existed This poll is closed.
Much more likely Jesus was god	0%	0	0%
More likely Jesus was god	11.76%	2	11.76%
About the same	35.29%	6	35.29%
Less likely Jesus was God	11.76%	2	11.76%
Much less likely Jesus was god	41.18%	7	41.18%
Total		17 vote(s)	100%

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