(October 2, 2016 at 12:18 pm)Rhythm Wrote: -You- need to see conspiracies, because -you- think that they are easier to argue against than the mythicist position.
-How do account for the same story being told by multiple peoples?
You're right, it must be a conspiracy, just like the conspiracy to tell our children that mary had a little lamb......
The lack of evidence for jesus is not a problem for anyone but yourself. The stories exist regardless. It;s interesting..I think, that you'd like to talk about legends. Do you know the difference between a myth and a legend? One is taken to be, or believed to be, based on some kernel of history. The other is not. That's it, that's all. There is no other general line that can be drawn between and extended to all cases. So, to make a determination of legend (in the former, rather than latter sense) against, say...myth, one need only point to the evidence of historicty. Which, frankly, you don't have. What you have are the stories, your belief in them, and the belief of others in the same.
Rather than you guessing as to my motivations(and doing poorly), I think we would be better discussing the evidence... Now you take the historical evidence, and seem to dismiss them as just stories..... I am wondering why?