(September 24, 2013 at 3:13 pm)John V Wrote:(September 24, 2013 at 2:54 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: You've heard the claim now.No, I've heard of the claim. For all I know it's admittedly made up, like IPU or FSM.
Quote:Do you accept or reject it, and what is your reasoning behind accepting or rejecting it? You don't have to look up anything, you only have to know what you think.Incorrect. One possible differentiator is the claimed motives of the people making the claim, and whether they behave accordingly.
There's an obvious reason to dodge the question: you can't thinik of a reason not to believe in lawn-growing garden gnomes that doesn't work equaly well as a reason not to believe in God.
And you don't think there were any motives for the creation of christianity?
Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. -Alice