RE: Christians - What would you do if it were discovered Jesus never existed?
September 6, 2015 at 7:44 pm
(September 6, 2015 at 12:20 pm)Drich Wrote:(September 4, 2015 at 3:49 pm)Redbeard The Pink Wrote: We're talking hypothetical here, Drich. It's a hypothetical situation with a hypothetical piece of smoking-gun evidence. We've asked you to play pretend long enough to answer a question, and your answer is basically, "I don't have enough imagination to pretend that, so I can't answer the question." Nice one.That's the thing I'm pointing out. Even in a hypotheitical I'm not willing to surrender my reasoning ability to some unnamed expert. I would like to see the evidence and decide from there. Which again I point to the impossibility of said evidence.
To answer the OP, I used to be a Christian (yes, a True Christian, fuck you people), and I encountered evidence that convinced me Jesus of Nazareth most likely did not exist as a historical person, and when I did I immediately de-converted to atheism. While a lot of Christians are prone to sticking their fingers in their ears, they're not all beyond hope. I wasn't.
I did a thread like this some time ago:
http://atheistforums.org/thread-11941.html
If you want to know what I think read the OP
So, you would keep ASKing in spite of evidence that God does not exist?