(January 28, 2014 at 1:43 pm)Tea Earl Grey Hot Wrote: I wouldn't recommend mythicism for promoting atheism however. You can make just as good an argument against Christianity assuming Jesus existed and assuming a majority opinion as an anti- apologetic will make your argument more easily accepted.
Agreed. I tend to argue from the general principle cited by Marcello Truzzi: "An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeteticism#...skepticism