The God of Convenience

[Mudhammam]

The temple in Jerusalem was the center of Jewish faith. It was perhaps the best known building in the city and in all of Israel. People knew of Jesus before and after he died. Writers of many of the books of the new testament claimed to be eyewitness. Of course, that's what we have with Plato.

Oh, the temple. Well that's rather insignificant. You're comparing the founding of one of the most prominent schools in the world by a person who left many writings about himself, whose affiliation with the school was recognized throughout the ancient world and disputed by no one, with the notion that a God appeared in the form of man and walked where thousands traversed every year, though nobody except the writer who recorded it in the Gospel, based on second-hand information decades later, paid much attention to it. Now why would I find that unconvincing?

I don't doubt that many men named Jesus walked through Jerusalem or its temple. I just doubt, as every intelligent person must, that the "son of God" caused the curtain to rip and hordes of zombies to flood Jerusalem's streets, as apparently everybody else who wrote about Jerusalem in that time did too---but to be fair, because they never heard such silly claims.

And who claim to be eyewitnesses? Who specifically? What do we know about these people? Of what specific events? I think you'll find your answers here rather lacking too.

So you accept Plato because he is more believable to you.

Lol. Umm.. that should be pretty obvious by now. Like I said, common sense and experience demands that you'd require more evidence for my claim that I own a rainbow-colored Chimera or an intergalactic spaceship than you would if I said I went to the grocery store and the bank today. The Jesus we're talking about is more incredible, or ridiculous, than my fictional Chimera. The details of Plato's life are as trivial as my trip to buy milk.