(September 7, 2011 at 11:49 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: In fairness, what Christianity does claim that sets it apart from some of the other major religions is that their god allegedly walked the earth with "multiple attestations" and "reliable eye-witness accounts" being included in their holy scriptures. Proving that their god did walk the earth or that their "reliable eye witnesses accounts" are either reliable or from eye-witnesses is another matter but they seem to take it as a given.
Indeed it seems a pretty poor way to build the foundations of a philiosophy. I am an expat living in Bangalore, recently the very revered and celebrated South Indian guru, Sathya Sai Baba died here. He was a philanthropist of some note and no doubt accumulated his wealth from appearing in front of the poor and private audiences for the rich etc. He was an industry. The thing is he had 100s (I kid you not), of well attested and documented miracles, some recorded for the troops in front of hundreds of thousands of devotees. The devotees would swear that these were genuine miracles. He was revered as a demi god and did nothing to my knowledge to disavow this adoration. His claims would be more recent, better attested and more consistent than those of the Jesus character in the NT. Perhaps the Hindus can now try this approach?
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
