(July 26, 2017 at 8:25 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I wish skeptics could settle on a side. If the gospels appear to contradict each other, they say that's evidence that they were fabricated. When the gospels agree then the skeptics say it's all just cut-and-paste. Here's an idea. Maybe when the gospel writers agree it's because they're all writing about the same guy and they appear to disagree because they are using the same literary conventions as Plutarch's Lives.
(nuf said, it's not really any more complicated than that... scampers back to obscurity)
Are you fucking kidding me? Do you not understand that those two are not mutually exclusive? Who the fuck thinks that something made-up can't also be copied? It's not like anyone who put this to paper was in any way intelligent, so their fuck-ups in failing to remember what they already wrote down are almost inevitable, even when it's being pulled out of their asses and not dictated by anyone else.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
