(September 28, 2013 at 6:42 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Doesn't help us with where it came from, though.
No one knows how the pyramids were built but they were built by someone. They exist.
The church was cobbled together at some point, too. If their story is absurd...and it is the most absurd story ever...there is still a reason why we spent 1,500 years groveling to a shitty god and a bunch of con men in fancy robes. I want to understand that story.
For example:
This inscription shows up in 318 AD on a Marcionite church in Syria. This is well within the so-called xtian period...or is it chrestian period, and is six years after the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.
Quote:The earliest known church inscription (found near Damascus) is Marcionite, and dates to 318 CE and reads:
Συναγωγη Μαρκιωνιστων κωμ(ης)
Λεβαβων του κ(υριο)υ και σω(τη)ρ(ος) Ιη(σου) Χρηστου
προνοια(ι) Παυλου πρεσβ(υτερου) -- του λχ' ετους.
["The meeting-house of the Marcionists, in the village of
Lebaba, of the Lord and Savior Jesus The Good.
Erected by the forethought of Paul the elder -- In the year 630."
http://stephanhuller.blogspot.com/2010/0...r-ali.html
Oh I agree. But Drich is an idiot. If you're not disputing the tenets of Christianity directly, he thinks he's won. He doesn't recognize that this is an Atheist Forum and that people find all aspects of the absurdity of his religion to be entertaining. He stumbles across a thread like this and thinks-"Ah ha! They can't disprove my religion so they've resorted to disputing translation!" I was just wanting to make it clear to him that nothing could be further from the truth, and that this post, while interesting, is not the crux of refuting his stupid ideas. Nor is it required to do so.
