RE: Theists: What is the most compelling argument you have heard for Atheism?
March 21, 2017 at 6:45 am
(March 21, 2017 at 5:49 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(March 20, 2017 at 9:41 pm)SteveII Wrote: Tacitus referred to the large community of Christians in Rome regarding the events of 64AD
Tacitus does mention Jesus but only snippets that happen to mention common Christian beliefs of their day in passing while actually discussing some other subject altogether, not making any grand pronouncements on Jesus' historicity.
I mean just imagine what Tacitus and people that lived in those times fail to mention the phenomenally news-worthy events: like a 3-hour supernatural darkness over "all the land" - an unprecedented solar phenomenon that the whole ancient world would have noticed; or the healing rain that fell; the veil of the temple was ripped in half from top to bottom; Jerusalem was rocked by not one but two earthquakes, strong enough to split rocks open, and perhaps my own favorite overlooked historical detail, the mass resurrection of many dead Jewish saints!!
I mean how do you explain that? Do you simply ignore it?
Not to mention the huge red herring we're expected to chase - nobody denies that xtians exist. But there's no way to get from there to the existence of a christ figure without blatantly palming a card, any more than we could establish Santa from the existence of his fanclub.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
