RE: Jesus Never Existed vs The Holocaust
November 19, 2013 at 12:14 pm
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2013 at 12:36 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(November 19, 2013 at 10:08 am)SwedishAtheist Wrote: Couple of questions.
There appears to be no historical evidence for Jesus.
Is there as much evidence for that Jesus never existed as it is for that the holocaust never took place? Can you compare these these events anyway?
If I think that Jesus never existed. Is that on the same basis that a holocaust denier think that the holocaust never took place? Why or why not?
Is the historical evidence for the holocaust better than for the existense of Jesus?
The reason why I ask because some people accuse people that think that Jesus never existed to be holocaust deniers among other things.
I doubt that Jesus existed, but I think that the holocaust took place. Have I reasons to believe that?
Holocaust is extensively corroborated by contemporary and archeological evidence. Nothing about holocaust contradicts well-known and thoroughly verified laws of physics, chemistry and biology.
The central essence of Jesus story is corroborated by nothing worthwhile, and stands in diametric contradiction to well-known and thoroughly verified laws of physics, chemistry and biology.
If one were to thoroughly apply consistent rules of evidence across all that one believes, then believing holocaust remains totally compatible with believing virtually everything that progress of modern science have shown to be valid and sound, and incompatible with believing most things that have been shown false.
Believing Jesus to be son of god, on the other hand, requires a different set of rule of evidence that, while not necessarily exclude belief in some things that are demonstratably true, would also compel you to believe in virtually anything that are so sufficiently outlandishly false that they would be basis for committing you to a psychiatric hospital.