(September 13, 2015 at 2:28 am)Minimalist Wrote: Oh, fuck Holding. Just another apologetic con man who gets rich by telling idiots that their God is real.
I briefly skimmed through and didnt see much else besides someone making "claims" and not providing evidence.
But also in my opinion, even if 9/10 of them were wrong for whatever reason, just 1 of them being correct shows too much coorelation to justify it being a different religion.
Also it's quite convenient that Jesus just happened to fit so many previous qualities among other religious characters, even if spread out in array to ignore the fact that all he had no new qualities whatsoever is a pathetic attempt at justifying what time and time again is disproven. The amount of evidence against what should not require evidence to disprove(The burden of proof) is quite remarkable. To deny this and choose to believe, means you are accepting that there is no clear way to understand any religious text. The fact that anything that would qualify as a "God" would rely on anecdotal testimony, and languages that die out means he is an amazingly stupid god, if actually trying to convey his message to humanity. No amount of anecdotal testimony would be enough to justify the miracles professed throughout the bible. To believe all of this after recognizing the evidence of the counter part is to quite simply deny reason and evidence, and as Sam Harris said "Once you deny evidence, there is no evidence anyone can give you in order to make you accept evidence, the conversation is done"(paraphrasing).
(sorry for the rant)
