(November 12, 2010 at 1:49 am)Minimalist Wrote: For a month or so.
After that......... time would have taken care of the problem. When the body fell off they tossed it on a garbage heap.
The gospel stories of how a crucified criminal was taken down for "proper burial" are a fine example of xtian special pleading.
Everything that is special to any religion is a case of special pleading. Faith IS nothing more than a petulant insistence on special pleading. As to this particular example, it's hardly worth pointing out. When the entire thing is thoroughly rotten, it's hardly worth pointing that a particular part of it also happen to be rotten.