The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians

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Ok ya'll, I get that you guys don't agree with the way Randy presents himself and his views around here, but this is just getting painful to watch. Ganging up on someone and calling them nasty names is never warranted, imho. A few of these posts are just getting to the point of being character assassination. This is a real person here, with a wife and kids, and other loved ones. Let's not forget that.

So don't watch.  He's constantly pulling the same shit I suspect because he thinks it makes him some kind of martyr.

Let's get something straight about him, C/L.  He's a cherry-picking asshole.  He loves to trot out a line from Ehrman but I have yet to see him address Ehrman's conclusion to his bullshit resurrection gibberish.

So too with the resurrection of Jesus. Historians can, in theory, examine aspects of the tradition. In theory, for example, a historian could look into the question of whether Jesus really was buried in a known tomb and whether three days later that same tomb was found to be empty, with no body in it. What the historian cannot conclude, as a historian, is that God therefore must have raised the body and taken it up to heaven. The historian has no access to information like that, and that conclusion requires a set of theological presuppositions that not all historians share. Moreover, it is possible to come up with perfectly sensible other solutions as to why a once-occupied tomb may have become empty: someone stole the body; someone innocently decided to move the body to another tomb; the whole story was in fact a legend, that is, the burial and discovery of an empty tomb were tales that later Christians invented to persuade others that the resurrection indeed happened.

Of course....whether or not the tomb was ever "occupied" is solely dependent on the same book of bullshit which Ehrman has spent a career trashing but for now it is enough to make the point.