RE: Why not dismiss the trinitarian belief outright
July 28, 2021 at 10:27 am
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2021 at 10:32 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The short version of a long story, is that the Christianity, and Christian history, that some contemporary Christians have been actively propagandized by is the view of the winning faction. The one that survived.
No more, no less. People have always disagreed on absolutely everything. That was as true of proto christians then as it was of everyone else then, and now.
I respect the fact that a strong belief in the miraculous nature of the narrative and narrative events might lead a person to miss the obvious and argue counterfactually, but it is what it is, and what it was.
As I mentioned to another poster, whatever you believe about a god, or who told the right stories about a god, magic book has a history of its own completely unaffected by those beliefs. Christianity as a historical movement, likewise.
No more, no less. People have always disagreed on absolutely everything. That was as true of proto christians then as it was of everyone else then, and now.
I respect the fact that a strong belief in the miraculous nature of the narrative and narrative events might lead a person to miss the obvious and argue counterfactually, but it is what it is, and what it was.
As I mentioned to another poster, whatever you believe about a god, or who told the right stories about a god, magic book has a history of its own completely unaffected by those beliefs. Christianity as a historical movement, likewise.
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