Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?

[Mister Agenda]

Most scholars believe that Mark was written by a second-generation Christian, around or shortly after the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple in year 70.

The problem there is that "most scholars" grasp onto 70 because they are smart enough not to put any credence in the absurd concept of "prophecy."  This is designed to make them seem less stupid than the three shits who think that miracles are real in this thread.  The problem is whoever wrote what later came to be called the gospel of mark did not address the situation in 70.  Josephus recounts that the city was a burned out, sacked, pillaged, un populated shithole.  But it was not leveled.  In Mark 13 he has his godboy say that not one stone will remain upon another.  So 70 is the terminus a quo, the earliest possible date for the city being burned out by Titus' assault.  But that condition remained valid for 65 years.  In 135 Emperor Hadrian did, in fact, level the site and build the new city of Aelia Capitolina on the site of the former Jerusalem. 

So "mark" is recording an actual historical event.  Jerusalem was in fact leveled.  But you will wait a long time for any xtian shitwit to admit that their gospel bullshit did not begin ( and remember that 'mark' was first ) until after the Romans suppressed the bar Kokhba revolt.

I suppose they could suggest that mark was too fucking stupid to understand the difference between a burned-out set of ruins and a leveled site suitable for reconstruction.  I can't see them rushing to that, either.

I read in some news that a paper mache mummy's mask contained a significant fragment of Mark and was tentatively dated to around 70 AD. It's not a claim I'm well-qualified to evaluate, but for what it's worth.

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If there is an entity out there that wishes me (and everyone else) to acknowledge its existence, then it should show itself to me (and everyone else)... I guess it could do it again and again, in every age... and all over the World. Certainly not beyond its claimed ability.

Not only not beyond its ability, it would be less than trivial requiring zero effort on the part of an omnipotent being, by definition.