(May 2, 2019 at 3:46 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(May 2, 2019 at 3:32 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I don't see that as necessarily true, given the number of believers who are obviously sincere. Christianity is a set of beliefs, which makes it as real as socialism or veganism or environmentalism.
Boru
The number of sincere believers is large. But there were probably a limited set of supposed occurrences that were instrumental for Christianity gaining critical mass at various stages. I strongly suspect high percentage of those occurrences were fakes and fabrications, not just the product of genuine wishful thinking.
Without new occurrences then it would entropy and you have nothing to worry about, which statistically seems to be the trend.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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