(June 7, 2012 at 12:18 am)Minimalist Wrote: Political and propaganda reasons. The Greeks pulled the same shit when Herodotus wrote that the Persian army invading Greece numbered 2.1 million men.
Caesar wrote that a quarter of a million Gauls rallied to break the siege of Alesia.
Both numbers are fucking ridiculous and serve the same purpose. To make the victors look even more heroic than
they were.
Like the 500 witnesses to the flying risen Jesus?
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
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... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
