(February 11, 2015 at 3:00 pm)SteveII Wrote: It is a useful theory to the atheist who is hell-bent on discrediting the gospels/epistles.
When I went on my search for the origins of Christianity and to form a time-line of the patriarchs, I was a Christian. I was "hell-bent" on learning more about my religion. What I found helped to form my atheism, and I'm sure this is true for many atheists, so to say its a useful theory for atheists to discredit the gospel smacks my honest search for god in the face. That facts discredit bullshit just comes with the territory. There's no atheist conspiracy.