(July 15, 2015 at 8:26 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I have another question, since it seems the majority of you don't think Jesus was any type of real person, does it bother you that much of the world uses His (supposed) birth to tell time?
I'm talking about the fact that we're in the year 2015... and anything before that is referred to as Before Christ? (BC)
Does it bother you that most Christian scholars believe that the dating does not accurately represent when Jesus was born? 4 BCE is a common belief, but there is some variety:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus
And these are people who believe that Jesus was real, not people like me, who am not convinced that he even existed as a man upon whom the religion is based.
Ultimately, though, it makes little difference if Jesus existed or not. I believe that Joseph Smith existed, and I am not about to convert to Mormonism. Somehow I doubt you will convert to Mormonism either. A con man existing who starts a religion is not a good reason to convert.
Now, I would prefer a different dating system than what we have, if I could magically go back in time and change it, but I would very much be against changing it now, as it would cause too much trouble. Think of all of the books in print with dates in them, and what a nightmare it would be to have to convert them to some new dating system.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
