RE: Why Christianity?
August 19, 2015 at 8:44 pm
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2015 at 8:54 pm by abaris.)
(August 19, 2015 at 8:31 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Um...I'm "quote-mining" scholars who have studied these same issues for decades. In the original languages. Have you?
The concept is what counts, eh? Yeah, that's my point...there are parallels but no real evidence that supports this stupid hypothesis.
You're quotemining. I've got a lot of books from scholars on my shelves that say the opposite. I usually don't take what I say on a matter from the internet but from my library. And I've read the myths. Not in their original language, I give you that, but I've read them. The difference being that I don't automatically look for the statement being the most convenient to confirm my opinions. Espacially if I know the author to be opposed to religion. Most of all I look at more than one source. You on the other hand take the first that says what you want to hear and take it as absolute proof for your claim.
We've had that discussion before, but that's not how being critical of your sources works.
With all the scholars you quoted there's not one non christian among them (please don't come with Ehrman again), there are mainly theologians and hardly any historians.