(February 4, 2015 at 7:39 pm)SteveII Wrote: Bart Ehrman (a secular agnostic) wrote:appeal to authority
Quote: "He certainly existed, as virtually every competent scholar of antiquity, Christian or non-Christian, agrees"appeal to authority and popularity -within- an appeal to authority
Quote:Robert M. Price (an atheist)appeal to authority
Quote: who denies the existence of Jesus agrees that this perspective runs against the views of the majority of scholarsreassertion of the majority opinion
Quote:Michael Grant (a classicist)appeal to authority
Quote: states that "In recent years, 'no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus'poisons the well
Quote:Richard A. Burridge states:appeal to authority
Quote: "There are those who argue that Jesus is a figment of the Church’s imagination, that there never was a Jesus at all. I have to say that I do not know any respectable critical scholar who says that any more."poisons the well
Jesus christ man just show us some fucking evidence!
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