(October 1, 2016 at 2:16 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Yet another christ believer who insists upon conspiracies, as though they were relevant. This is -why- discussions of the mythicist position are unfruitful, and it's pretty much the only song in the book..of late.
-Could- some great and vast conspiracy account for the narrative? Sure, but who cares, since we're not discussing a conspiracy and one need not have occurred to account for the narrative...regardless of whether it's historical...legendary, or mythical?
Most of the myth advocates I have heard (including Carrier), normally turn to some kind of conspiracy (even if they do not like to call it that). Otherwise, how do you account for the same story being told in multiple places by multiple people? This would be opposed to a legendary account, in which the story was not invented whole cloth, but grew over time; distorting the actual history. For both, that lack of evidence or reasons for their conclusion is a problem. For the legend theory, their is also a lack of time, for the legend to replace the actual events.
Since you are not putting forth any arguments, I am going by what I have normally run into. I would love to discuss something specific, if you would like to put forth your view that you are advocating. However until then, I can only speak in generalities of what I have encountered.
