(April 7, 2017 at 8:59 am)Harry Nevis Wrote:(April 6, 2017 at 4:06 pm)SteveII Wrote: Bart Ehrman is a NT skeptic with an important-to-note bias--he does not believe in God. Am is supposed to type out a list of scholars who disagree with him? That would be an appeal to authority.
God forbid anybody be skeptical of the supernatural. The fact that he does not believe gives him more credibility than the scholars/apologists that do believe.
BINGO, if we never questioned religion we'd still believe stupid shit literally that theists now pass off as metaphor. "Bless you" was a literal belief long ago that when you sneezed that was your "soul" attempting to escape. Humans also stupidly thought your heart did the thinking too. It was because skeptics said "fuck you" I am going to figure out what is really going on with the human body, we now have modern medicine.
Theists have to continually take the fantastic claims of their holy writings and back peddle and relegate more and more to "that's just metaphor"....No, how about they are merely bad guesses humans made and sold because back then humans didn't know any better.
I say that about all religions though. But for our resident Christians, the two most important stories they hing their entire religion on are utter garbage. There is no such thing as a magic baby with super powers born without a second set of DNA and nobody can survive the death story as the bible would have you believe. If you do that to a human they die and stay dead.
But there are also fantastic claims in every religion, Islam, Jewish, Hindu and even Buddhism, which is also rooted in mythology and superstition.
