(May 20, 2014 at 6:55 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Ah, the old "would they die for a lie?" ploy. The basic upshot of this is that the whole story is much too silly not to be true. It's like the magic mirror on the wall in Snow White - such a childishly silly notion, yet without it the story falls apart. So, the argument runs, if these early 'martyrs' had anything better, less ridiculous, to stake their lives on, surely they'd have done that?
Answers on a postcard to the usual address.
Plus as Chuck says, the whole story of those brave, misunderstood martyrs has zero historical evidence anyway.
Well the Romans did send a lot of so-called Christians to their deaths in the arenas.
The whole thing is like the Puritans burning witches to death. If witches were real and had supernatural powers could you burn them to death at the stake?
