(April 24, 2012 at 12:54 am)radorth Wrote: KichigaiNeko's creed:
"Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing."
Don't pick on Jesus-mythers like that man.
If they want to believe in the miraculous collusion of at least 10,000 early Christians to hide the facts, without a single one saying it was a myth, let them. But then as one atheist told me, after being asked why nobody said anything, "They must have burned the evidence."
I smell a strawman. I've never gotten the idea of a "collusion" the way you picture it from what I've read of the myth position so far. Anyone who's better familiar than me with the myth position care to explain to this guy why he's wrong?
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
