(July 5, 2018 at 1:37 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(July 5, 2018 at 10:29 am)mh.brewer Wrote: Help me out here guys. If jesus was not a god (son of god) then why does it really matter if there was a poser(s) or not?
This feels like a bunch of mental masturbation.
Actually, it doesn't. It is merely an academic argument where on the one hand you have people pointing out that there is no direct contemporary evidence for the allegedly wondrous things the poser did and others who swear their bullshit is true.
Most of those scholars they are so quick to embrace utterly reject the miracle nonsense which brings us to what H. L. Mencken noted.
Quote:Either Jesus arose from the dead or He didn't. If he did, then Christianity becomes plausible; if He did not, then it is sheer nonsense.
Mark me down as a vote for "sheer nonsense."
See your bold
Actually it does, I asked if jesus was god or not (which seems to include rose from the dead), got crickets. This is a battle over someone named jesus existing supporting the religion. It's sheer nonsense even if jesus did exist but not as a god.
You can fight your battles all you want. gods don't exist and all religions are bullshit.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
