(August 18, 2015 at 5:30 am)robvalue Wrote: To those sort of questions, I would respond that they may have done so simply to give the illusion of truth. People can be sneaky. Analyzing their motivations is a choppy business. (I don't feel the need to identity as anything, I simply have my own conclusions as per my checklist.)
Wow, I thought my checklist was going to cause a shitstorm
Sure, ok. Do you want to come up with a reason for them being unnecessarily sneaky?
This is about plausibility, rob. You want to muse about Jesus' nonexistence, you're free to do so, lol.
Analyzing motivations is part of what scholars do.
