(January 30, 2015 at 1:04 pm)SteveII Wrote: Regarding hearsay evidence...
1. It is not a synonym for proof or a claim
2. It is evidence
3. If hearsay evidence exists of an event, there is evidence of that event.
If 10 people told me your house was burning down and I relayed that fact to you, you would rightly conclude there is evidence that your house is burning down. Although I did not prove anything, you would not be irrational to act on my statement and go home.
You can argue what might be better evidence, but you cannot claim there is no evidence for the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
Reinforcement of the fact that you have no ability to think critically about your own sentiments.
If 10 people told you my house was burning down and you related that to me, what do you think I would do? Would I take your word on it and just buy a new house? Or would I go to my house and investigate? I am still taking it as hearsay. I am not basing my whole life on what those 10 people told you, which you told me.
Now, if 10 people told me to tell you that there is an invisible pink unicorn in my closet that died for your sins and that you must worship lest you suffer in pink unicorn bondage for eternity, is that the same thing? Do you require the same level of evidence for this claim as the fire claim? Why or why not?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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