(August 14, 2015 at 7:40 am)Randy Carson Wrote: [...]lol... F-ing what?
(2) If they made up the story, they were the most creative, clever, intelligent fantasists in history, far surpassing Shakespeare, or Dante, or Tolkien. Fisherman's "fish stories" are never that elaborate, that convincing, that life-changing, and that enduring.
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NT story is a derivative and primitive pile of crap. There's nothing "intelligent" or even "clever" about it, from the storytelling point of view. Not to mention that "gospels" like those were penny a dozen.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw