Quote:Let’s briefly cover some historical background. The Roman emperor Vespasian ruled from A.D. 69 -79; his reign ended with his death. Writing about Vespasian some 25 years later, the Roman historian Tacitus reported a famous incident where Vespasian is said to have miraculously healed two men – one blind and one lame.
This miracle account is important because it has been frequently compared to the miracles of Jesus, and in particular, to his miraculous resurrection from the dead. The argument that skeptics make goes something like this: “The accounts of Vespasian’s healing miracles are as well evidenced as the resurrection of Jesus. People of the ancient world were credulous enough to believe both Vespasian’s miracles and Jesus’s miracles. However, sophisticated modern people do not believe that Vespasian actually healed the two men. Therefore, since the evidence for his miracles is at least as good as the evidence for Jesus’s reported resurrection, a sophisticated modern person should also not believe Jesus’s miraculous resurrection.”
I can hear the xtian shitwits...who insist that the Tacitus passages about their fucking christ are real will insist that these are phony.
http://www.toughquestionsanswered.org/20...elievable/
And, true to form, the special pleading begins quickly.
