(June 21, 2016 at 8:02 am)madog Wrote: I posted this in another thread, but it is pertinent as regards the story/message being told .... The story is rehashed from previous events in the storytellers lives, so they were most probably creating a church from rehashed history ...
This guy has a lot of good stuff, but this video covers some of the history that is relevant ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzbp8ZiXpnc
Below is details of him on wiki ... if you want to check him out ... he has a doctorate in ancient history from Columbia University, etc ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carrier
From 1:20-2:00, he makes the same logical fallacy that you have made. If God exists and wanted X, he would have brought it about by doing Y. Not Y, therefore God did not want X. I don't think Richard Carrier, although he earned a PhD, is engaging in a serious scholarly analysis of the data.
"History, just in the big picture, already refutes all religions, right? If there was any god-based religion, god would consistently be talking to people with the same message, the same belief system" -Richard Carrier beginning @ 2:04
Where does he get that? Why does he conclude that? History? Science? What?
