You are quite correct, Rob.
But since god is apparently AWOL we are left with idiots who think magic is real and insist that their sorry old stories must be treated as if they really happened. When asked for evidence they simply repeat their bullshit....which is my problem with Ehrman. He has done a fantastic job of trashing the writings which have come down to us as mistake-ridden, heavily edited, pieces of propaganda but he still turns around and tries to use them as evidence for his particular historical jesus...which is an apocalyptic preacher who got himself killed.
But he sure as shit doesn't buy any resurrection nonsense:
Shits like Randy will embrace Ehrman right up to the point where he dismisses his lunacy and then dump him.
But since god is apparently AWOL we are left with idiots who think magic is real and insist that their sorry old stories must be treated as if they really happened. When asked for evidence they simply repeat their bullshit....which is my problem with Ehrman. He has done a fantastic job of trashing the writings which have come down to us as mistake-ridden, heavily edited, pieces of propaganda but he still turns around and tries to use them as evidence for his particular historical jesus...which is an apocalyptic preacher who got himself killed.
But he sure as shit doesn't buy any resurrection nonsense:
Quote:
Bart D. Ehrman on the Historian and the Resurrection of Jesus
By John W. Loftus at 4/24/2011
Here's what Ehrman wrote:
Quote:Why was the tomb supposedly empty? I say supposedly because, frankly, I don't know that it was. Our very first reference to Jesus' tomb being empty is in the Gospel of Mark, written forty years later by someone living in a different country who had heard it was empty. How would he know?...Suppose...that Jesus was buried by Joseph of Arimathea...and then a couple of Jesus' followers, not among the twelve, decided that night to move the body somewhere more appropriate...But a couple of Roman legionnaires are passing by, and catch these followers carrying the shrouded corpse through the streets. They suspect foul play and confront the followers, who pull their swords as the disciples did in Gethsemane. The soldiers, expert in swordplay, kill them on the spot. They now have three bodies, and no idea where the first one came from. Not knowing what to do with them, they commandeer a cart and take the corpses out to Gehenna, outside town, and dump them. Within three or four days the bodies have deteriorated beyond recognition. Jesus' original tomb is empty, and no one seems to know why.
Is this scenario likely? Not at all. Am I proposing this is what really happened? Absolutely not. Is it more probable that something like this happened than that a miracle happened and Jesus left the tomb to ascend to heaven? Absolutely! From a purely historical point of view, a highly unlikely event is far more probable than a virtually impossible one..." [See pages 171-179]
http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.co...n-and.html
Shits like Randy will embrace Ehrman right up to the point where he dismisses his lunacy and then dump him.
