RE: Why be good?
June 7, 2015 at 2:14 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2015 at 2:14 pm by SteelCurtain.)
(June 7, 2015 at 2:04 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(June 7, 2015 at 1:49 pm)IATIA Wrote: Eyewitness testimony can be significantly strengthened through corroborating evidence of which the gospels have none. Whereas, evidence and statements provided by the posters here can be corroborated if one were so inclined as to put forth the time and effort.
Could the evidence and statements of the authors of the gospels be corroborated if one were so inclined as to put forth the time and effort?
Certainly. But corroborating a story requires primary sources, and, most importantly, not starting out with the conclusion that that they're real.
You Christians aren't so good at that last part.
Unfortunately, this line of reasoning that you've embarked on works just as well for the Greek gods, the Roman gods, Mithra, Allah, Zoroaster, Ahura Mazda, Amun Ra, Isis, Thor...
"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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