(August 13, 2014 at 1:32 pm)Michael Wrote: That just comes across as pejorative and polemical dismissal Minimalist. I think that damages, rather than supports, the atheist cause. It's just the flip side of 'the Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it'. It comes across, to me, simply as fundamentalism from another perspective. When you look at the scholarly world, generations have engaged with Tertullian in a much more considered and balanced way.
The day I care what you think I'll let you know. Meanwhile...your gospels are the same as all other ancient writing: Unreliable. In the case of the gospels we have actual evidence of them being edited....either accidentally or deliberately over time.
You should read Bart Ehrman's Jesus Interrupted to find out how.
