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Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach
RE: Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach
(July 7, 2015 at 7:40 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:
(July 7, 2015 at 7:21 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Jorm-

Carrier has been pretty badly discredited among the atheist community. Are you a Jesus Mythicist, too?

Can you discredit anything in the passage?


Of course not. 

He'd rather just toss a genetic fallacy at you, and move on. 

Makes him feel as if he refuted the point, without actually refuting it.

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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RE: Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach - by Simon Moon - July 7, 2015 at 7:49 pm

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