(February 7, 2018 at 5:31 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Wow, it's rare to get the trifecta so tight. An argument from ignorance, then an appeal to popularity, capped off with a bare assertion.
Sounds like a hell of a "reason" to believe in fairies and magic books.
It's stunning in it's fallacious beauty, isn't it?
Steve, one does not need to present a counter theory in order to say that the theory being presented is bogus. That's classic, flawed theistic thinking at it's finest. "Oh yeah? Well, how do you account for it?" is an irrelevant question.
Further, putting aside the authors' intent, the actual fact is that there's absolutely 0 corroborating evidence that Jesus was supernatural. And BS about people's hearts being changed (so what?) and the spread of the church (again, so what?) is immaterial. It merely speaks to what people may or not find compelling (which is subjective by definition). Also - and, remember, you had a thread in which you were eviscerated several times over this - evidence for mundane events does not lend credibility to extraordinary claims. That some people went to some place and did some mundane thing is categorically different than saying that one of the people was legitimately magical, and did things that fly in the face of physics and biology. Things that there's no evidence of.
And, again, that so many people swallow this tripe wholesale != veracity regarding it. Saying "I know a bunch of people who had similar experiences to me" means absolutely nothing except that you all live in the same (or similar enough) culture, one that ascribes certain things to supernatural forces for no legitimate reason outside of cultural inertia combined with wanting it to be true. Congratulations, you're a Westerner.
