(August 1, 2017 at 9:06 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(August 1, 2017 at 7:59 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Documents that purport to being factual accounts require some form of independent corroboration in order to verify their claims.
You mean like other documents? Then you're going to tell me those other documents are claims too that require more documents to support their claims and so on into infinity. That's why the meme is bullshit. We have 4 gospels writing about the same people, places and events. We have several letters discussing those people, places and events. We have historian writing about the central figure mentioned in the 4 gospels and the several letters. We have archaeological evidence for some of those people, like Pilate, and places, like the pool of Bethesda. etc. etc.
We have evidence for George Washington, but we have no evidence he ever said "I cannot tell a lie." We have his signature. Do you have the signature of Jesus Christ? That's right, you don't -- sit at the head of the class. Do you have his home? See, we have the home GW lived in -- it is a national monument populated with the furnishings he sat on. Do you have that for your little Jesus? That right, you don't. Here's a gold star for your book report. (What's that? You can't expect his home to survive 2000 years? Some omnipotence! Some God!)
We have thousands of people contemporaneously discussing Washington, painting him, voting for him. You've got four assholes 80 years after an alleged hanging writing fanfic about their favorite jerkoff meme. If you're too slow to figure out the difference, that says a hell of a lot more about you than it does about Jesus, Washington, or atheists. You can believe what you want, but you'd better bring much thicker work if you want to actually, you know, change minds.
Until then, seems like you're just very happy feeling good about your own beliefs, but not questioning them.
