RE: What's not to love?
April 26, 2012 at 12:14 pm
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2012 at 12:15 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(April 26, 2012 at 12:08 pm)Anyse Wrote:(April 25, 2012 at 12:18 am)Zen Badger Wrote: You're talking as if jesus was a real person.
According to many scholars, he is, historically, a real person. Even Bart Ehrman, a former bible-thumping minister well trained in many aspects of xtianity and its canon and now, basically, an atheist, believes in an historical Jesus! Now, all the stuff piled up on this historical figure is another thing altogether. So, in this one area, it would behoove all atheists to accept the "historical" Jesus. It is the devil in the details per the NT that is really the rough part to swallow, which I, of course, as an atheist, do not.
That seems to be an argument from authority and majority I'm afraid. There's actually a fairly good case made by other scholars such as Carrier and Price that makes Jesus' existence questionable. May want to look into it if you haven't yet.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
