What if the Romans hadn't killed Jesus?

[Brian37]

Pail, not pale.

I concur, completely. It's all mythology and fairytale. No reason not to indulge in hypotheticals, though, and I for one would love to hear what any of our resident believers think of the question. At least I would, but I can't help suspecting the thread is like garlic to them.

As one of our resident believers my input is "I don't have any idea". Obviously, neither do any of you.

Yes we do. A book that claims a 6 day earth, a book that claims men pop out of dirt, a book that claims that women pop out of ribs, a book that claims donkey's talk, a book that claims bush's talk, a book that claims babies can be born without sperm, is NOT a science textbook.

Otherwise if all it takes to make any bullshit true simply by writing it down, then little boys can fly around on brooms or Apollo can curse a women for rebuffing an advance on her. And the sun is a real god too.

Even before you get to word one of ANY HOLY BOOK OF ANY RELIGION, you start out with an unproven naked assertion that cognition exists outside biological evolution. And on top of that claim of this entity, this cognition has magical powers beyond what science says and also defies evolution and nature.

WHAT WE DO HAVE abundant evidence of are dead myths and dead claims of deities no one believes in anymore. We also know literally in a scientific sense that people ARE capable of believing false things (not just on the issue of religion).

So please don't insult us by saying we don't know either. YES we do know, you simply do not want to face facts.

Do not blame us for a book we had no hand in writing back in an age of scientific ignorance. Just like you know the earth is not flat, and just like you know the Yankees don't play ice hockey.