(February 5, 2015 at 3:02 pm)SteveII Wrote: If your conclusion is that Christianity is recycled myths and then your argument for that is "we don't know how Christianity started", a discussion becomes impossible and even the recycled myth hypothesis can't be reasoned. I can't argue the negative because most of you will allow me no facts to formulate any type of premise that won't be struck down with "prove it".
But that's just the point - we don't know do we? And neither do you.
We are speculating and hypothesizing, but like you we're thin on any sort of evidence either way. It simply appears to be more likely that things occurred more in line with the whole collusion and invention hypothesis than it does the literal son of god hypothesis, based on the lack of evidence either way and the knowledge of power-centric political and religious philosophies work.
That's it. We have to look at the facts rather than taking the word prima facie.