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A strange but curious question: if you had a time machine...
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RE: A strange but curious question: if you had a time machine...
If going back to see a religion formed is my only time travel choice, I would go back to watch Jesus preach. The reason being that I think he was just one more rabbi with an apocalyptic message, and I'd like to see if I'm right. I'd also love to see actually wrote the New Testament and when. I'd particularly want to go if I could document what I saw in some provable way.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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#12
RE: A strange but curious question: if you had a time machine...
(February 9, 2015 at 2:09 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Why would I want to watch religion when I could travel several million years back and see some dinosaurs?
I'd go even further and take a look at the solar system when Earth was a molten ball.

Or, of you wanted to be really adventurous, travel back to just 'before' the big bang. Both views would be incredible.
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RE: A strange but curious question: if you had a time machine...
Scientology. Just so I could give Hubbard a hefty slap.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: A strange but curious question: if you had a time machine...
(February 9, 2015 at 2:02 pm)TheMessiah Wrote:
(February 9, 2015 at 1:57 pm)Norman Humann Wrote: Considering Jesus may as well have been just a myth, can I still watch it not happen?

The historical Jesus most likely existed.

And the evidence for that statement is?
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RE: A strange but curious question: if you had a time machine...
Trying to pin jesus on a single mad preacher back then is a bit like finding a needle in an arse stack.
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#16
RE: A strange but curious question: if you had a time machine...
If I had to choose one religion, I'd go with Buddhism.

But yeah . . . dinosaurs!
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RE: A strange but curious question: if you had a time machine...
(February 9, 2015 at 3:10 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
(February 9, 2015 at 2:02 pm)TheMessiah Wrote: The historical Jesus most likely existed.

And the evidence for that statement is?

I would not like to derail this thread;

I once thought he was nothing more than a myth before stumbling upon this.

http://www.rationalskepticism.org/christ...-t219.html

One of the users is called Tim O Neill, an Atheist himself who argues that Jesus must have existed due to the political atmosphere/effect he had on the Roman Empire.
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RE: A strange but curious question: if you had a time machine...
I'd suggest looking at some of the 50+ page threads about this topic.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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RE: A strange but curious question: if you had a time machine...
(February 9, 2015 at 3:36 pm)TheMessiah Wrote: One of the users is called Tim O Neill, an Atheist himself who argues that Jesus must have existed due to the political atmosphere/effect he had.

That is akin to stating that Harry Potter must have existed for the same reason.
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~ Erin Hunter
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RE: A strange but curious question: if you had a time machine...
Yeah, that's not a good argument, working backwards from effects. Bullshit can generate just the same effects.
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