Quote:Why do you think I want to believe it though? How do you figure I don't have legitimate reasons for believing what I do, and that they don't involve me just believing it because I "want to?"
Because you proudly claim that you do.... at least the parts that aren't too embarrassing. We call that cherry-picking. And Caesar's quote refers to a stratagem by which one of his commanders, Quintus Titurius Sabinus, by name, sent a spy into a Gallic camp to tell them that he was a deserter and that the Romans were demoralized and planning to flee which, being exactly what the Gauls wanted to hear led them into an ill-conceived attack on Sabinus' camp and he then kicked the shit out of them. The church has been telling people what they want to hear for a very long time. They have made it an art form. It's still just a scam.
