Randy, that sound you keep hearing is not crickets. It's the squeaking of your fingers rubbing against the wax in your ears.
Everything on that list is you keep mentioning is either a known forgery; a broad interpretation; a christian writing of some variety (biblical or otherwise, christian writings are the claim, not evidence); or the Talmud, which is also a piece of religious scripture and possibly a piece of anti-christian propaganda in spots. Nothing on that list has the kind of historical reliability you need to establish anything on your list as a definite, historical fact.
And AGAIN, even if you could, there are still simpler explanations for every claim on that list, and simpler explanations for that list as a whole. The whole thing revolves around "You don't have an explanation? Then GAUD is the explanation!" It's argument from ignorance, which is invariably the central pillar of the god claim. We are so, SO tired of it.
Everything on that list is you keep mentioning is either a known forgery; a broad interpretation; a christian writing of some variety (biblical or otherwise, christian writings are the claim, not evidence); or the Talmud, which is also a piece of religious scripture and possibly a piece of anti-christian propaganda in spots. Nothing on that list has the kind of historical reliability you need to establish anything on your list as a definite, historical fact.
And AGAIN, even if you could, there are still simpler explanations for every claim on that list, and simpler explanations for that list as a whole. The whole thing revolves around "You don't have an explanation? Then GAUD is the explanation!" It's argument from ignorance, which is invariably the central pillar of the god claim. We are so, SO tired of it.
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
