(June 6, 2013 at 7:46 am)fr0d0 Wrote: The bible is clear that they cannot be independently verifiable.If I wanted to come up with a cult so I wouldn't have to work anymore and become plenty rich then that'd be the first thing I'd assert. Right after my own status as the son of our divinity, just to make sure any usurpers are nipped in the bud. Then I'd get a bunch of gullible fellows to follow me around and impress them a bit with a few magic tricks any kid can learn.
But I'd make very sure that I don't piss off the powers that be too early on, lest I might be cruzified... that was his one mistake, to claim the title rex judea.
"Men see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages — except their own!" — Ernest Crosby.
