RE: Richard Carrier - The Hero Savior Analogy
October 3, 2016 at 6:59 pm
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2016 at 7:05 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The question isn't why I would doubt it, but why I would believe it.
The dearth of evidence for any jesus the man, and the demonstrable existence of people who didn't -believe- in a jesus-the-man in the first place. Who believed, like you believe, in a christ? Again, as has been explained so many times in this thread and others. We have stories, we have the belief of others in those stories, but those beliefs and those stories did not start as we see them today...and their existence doesn;t depend on a single iota of historicity. The jesus-come-legend is what one branch of christians -eventually- came to call "the real story" ...of a mythical christ- and that is all we've got. That's it. That doesn't cut it, for me.
The dearth of evidence for any jesus the man, and the demonstrable existence of people who didn't -believe- in a jesus-the-man in the first place. Who believed, like you believe, in a christ? Again, as has been explained so many times in this thread and others. We have stories, we have the belief of others in those stories, but those beliefs and those stories did not start as we see them today...and their existence doesn;t depend on a single iota of historicity. The jesus-come-legend is what one branch of christians -eventually- came to call "the real story" ...of a mythical christ- and that is all we've got. That's it. That doesn't cut it, for me.
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