RE: Christ's birthday
October 23, 2009 at 12:04 pm
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2009 at 12:06 pm by chatpilot.)
rjh4 the evidence for belief in God and specifically Christianity is seriously lacking and against all reason. It in my case is not about evidence I am willing to accept but rather evidence that as Craveman states is lacking.
All the evidence for Christianity is circumstantial at best and just because a majority of the populace believes it does not make it true. As our knowledge and understanding of the world we live in becomes clearer through the various disciplines of scientific study religion gets pushed back further into the corner of ignorance. Outside of the gospels there is no solid proof about the existence of Jesus, his miracles or exploits. Taking faith out of the equation only makes matters worse for the case for Christianity. The gospels we have now are:
1. Translations of several foreign and ancient languages
2. Even in their so called original languages they don't exist as original documents but copies of copies of copies.
3. None of the synoptic gospels which are supposed to be the biographical aspects of the life and ministry of Jesus are first hand accounts.
4. In fact the authors names attributed to them Matthew, Mark, and Luke were not attached to those documents till the middle of the 2nd century.
5. Mark being the oldest of the gospels ca. 70 AD is believed to have written his gospel from an hypothetical source document that scholars call Q from the German word quell for source. This so called document does not exist.
The Q document came into existence by piecing together all the similarities from the other two gospels and assuming that they all used portions of this so called document verbatim. The argument from design falls flat since not everything we see in the natural world shows signs of intelligent design. There are many things in nature that are flawed and there is chaos amid all the so called design. In conclusion Christianity is nothing more and nothing less than a myth just like all the other religious belief systems that preceded it.
All the evidence for Christianity is circumstantial at best and just because a majority of the populace believes it does not make it true. As our knowledge and understanding of the world we live in becomes clearer through the various disciplines of scientific study religion gets pushed back further into the corner of ignorance. Outside of the gospels there is no solid proof about the existence of Jesus, his miracles or exploits. Taking faith out of the equation only makes matters worse for the case for Christianity. The gospels we have now are:
1. Translations of several foreign and ancient languages
2. Even in their so called original languages they don't exist as original documents but copies of copies of copies.
3. None of the synoptic gospels which are supposed to be the biographical aspects of the life and ministry of Jesus are first hand accounts.
4. In fact the authors names attributed to them Matthew, Mark, and Luke were not attached to those documents till the middle of the 2nd century.
5. Mark being the oldest of the gospels ca. 70 AD is believed to have written his gospel from an hypothetical source document that scholars call Q from the German word quell for source. This so called document does not exist.
The Q document came into existence by piecing together all the similarities from the other two gospels and assuming that they all used portions of this so called document verbatim. The argument from design falls flat since not everything we see in the natural world shows signs of intelligent design. There are many things in nature that are flawed and there is chaos amid all the so called design. In conclusion Christianity is nothing more and nothing less than a myth just like all the other religious belief systems that preceded it.
There is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition
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