A simple challenge for atheists

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[SteveII]

[FatAndFaithless]

[Crossless2.0]

SteveII, I'm still curious to know why you don't apply your loose standards to evidence to writings outside your religious tradition. If the nonsense in the NT gets a pass from you, why not the miracle claims in the Quran, or the Gita, or the Book of Mormon? You don't get to say, "Well, that's all bullshit and false religion" because you've already thrown out any standard of rational discrimination that might be of use. Special pleading doesn't cut it around here. Save that shit for the rubes at your adult Sunday School lesson.

[Esquilax]

[SteelCurtain]

[Tonus]

Right? Even if we take the most liberal timeframes of these gospels being written, we would still be doing the equivalent of trusting someone's parent's eyewitness accounts about James Dean's life, followers, and death 60 years ago---then making a religion out of it where every word of it is literal truth.

And without the ease of researching his life that one would have in the modern era. Most likely any writings about people who had been dead for decades would have been based on stories passed down orally and perhaps a few written pieces. In other words, the Gospel of James Dean would be written by someone who never saw any of his work and interviewed the sons and daughters of people who'd read a few articles about him.

[Losty]

Woah :o

I got 42 kudoses in just 2 posts in this thread. The kudos whore in me thanks you for creating this thread, Bob. The rest of me isn't as sure.

[SteveII]

[FatAndFaithless]

Holy fucking math, batman.