RE: Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?
July 28, 2017 at 12:25 pm
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2017 at 12:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
@Camus
It fails to approach even that vastly lowered bar. The narratives in the bible represent many different cultures and individuals at many different times who all believed in fundamentally different gods. That they all got lumped together (those, ofc, that didn't get tossed out) was a matter of council politics and literary convention, not divine identity or faithful continuity. This was as true since the dawn of the belief-set as it is now. If a person tells you "I believe in the god of the bible" they've offered o meaningful specificity, as the next thirty believers will be more than keen to tell you all of the shit that the initial claimant got wrong about, purportedly, "the same god" - or that all of them got it wrng and the bible is a fairy tale -about- a god. The existence of the bible tells us no more than that the stories have been useful - not that any given person believes or believed in a specific concept of divinity...not even the one, or ten, or ten thousand, or who the hell knows how many one true gods will arise out of those pages before christers are done schisming, -of magic book.
It fails to approach even that vastly lowered bar. The narratives in the bible represent many different cultures and individuals at many different times who all believed in fundamentally different gods. That they all got lumped together (those, ofc, that didn't get tossed out) was a matter of council politics and literary convention, not divine identity or faithful continuity. This was as true since the dawn of the belief-set as it is now. If a person tells you "I believe in the god of the bible" they've offered o meaningful specificity, as the next thirty believers will be more than keen to tell you all of the shit that the initial claimant got wrong about, purportedly, "the same god" - or that all of them got it wrng and the bible is a fairy tale -about- a god. The existence of the bible tells us no more than that the stories have been useful - not that any given person believes or believed in a specific concept of divinity...not even the one, or ten, or ten thousand, or who the hell knows how many one true gods will arise out of those pages before christers are done schisming, -of magic book.
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