Is Accepting Christian Evidence Special Pleading?

[TheBeardedDude]

Okay so...to re-cap, so that I can wrap my brain around all of what I've read here, and what I've been reading on my own to fill in knowledge gaps:

Have I got this timeline right enough that we all (Theist and atheist) more or less agree?

-Jesus died around year 30
-Paul's letters weren't written until around year 50
-Gospel of Mark -not until around 70
-Luke, Matthew (taken from Mark and hypothetical Q) approx. 80's/90's
-Then John

And the final version of the NT that we know today, after being picked over several times, wasn't solidified until around year 390ish?!

How, in the name of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, could any rational person take the supernatural claims in this story seriously?  I mean, no one can even be sure that Paul himself ever met Jesus, let alone any of the gospel writers, whoever they were.  But Christianity is somehow more "evidenced" than Mormonism?  Or any other religion?  What evidence?!  This is special pleading.  And it's even worse than I'd realized.

"I mean, no one can even be sure that Paul himself ever met Jesus, let alone any of the gospel writers, whoever they were."

Don't know how Paul could have ever met Jesus. He had a vision where he hallucinated meeting Jesus, but that is no more believable than when someone dreams/hallucinates about being abducted by aliens.

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Ahhh back to proclaiming evidence you don't like as a conspiracy theory.

No... but if your theory is that a number of people across a geographical diverse area conspired to make it look like they are past historical events, when they are not.  I call that a conspiracy theory.  

It's not a problem if you have evidence to support your theory, however I would ask to see it.  Until then, I remain skeptical.

"No... but if your theory is that a number of people across a geographical diverse area conspired to make it look like they are past historical events, when they are not.  I call that a conspiracy theory.  "

And we call that a straw man.