Still a Christian - ask me questions/tell me about yourselves

[Rev. Rye]

"Why oh why would they die for a lie"

Who knows, but people clearly do.  It doesn't help that the NT is fiction,..but it doesn't matter either, with regards to answering -that- tired old chestnut.

Just ask Bandō Mitsugorō VIII. Oh, wait. You can't do that, because in 1975, he was at a restaurant and demanded the waiters serve him four fugu livers. The Fugu is a poisonous fish whose flesh is, if prepared properly, a delicacy. The liver is one of the most poisonous parts of the fish, and eating four of them... you're all but guaranteed a painful death, including several hours of living in a state of "I have no mouth and I must scream" before the Tetrodotoxin finally finishes you off.

Mitsugoro was evidently blessed with an encyclopedic knowledge of animals and food, which means he would almost certainly have known this, but apparently, he claimed he could somehow be immune to the toxin's effects. Apparently, he died seven hours after that fateful dinner and by all accounts, the pain was excruciating.

Still think nobody would die for something they'd know to be false?