We can be certain of NO resurrection - A Response
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We can be certain of NO resurrection - A Response
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 (September 30, 2015 at 10:53 am)SofaKingHigh Wrote:(September 30, 2015 at 9:58 am)Huggy74 Wrote: Wait, so what you're saying is that there is no record of a HEBREW city that goes by the Greek translation of "Arimathea"? Tell me it ain't so....... And he posted a quote as to why he thought so, which you conveniently left out.  (September 30, 2015 at 11:54 am)Minimalist Wrote: Since we know that these so-called gospels were written in Greek, by Greek speakers and not a bunch of illiterate fishermen, it makes sense that when they needed to create a character they picked one from their own culture rather than the one they were purportedly writing about. You do realize that Greek was a universal language, much like English is today. If your purpose was to spread the gospel, you'd write it in a language everyone could understand.  (September 30, 2015 at 12:25 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(September 30, 2015 at 11:54 am)Minimalist Wrote: Since we know that these so-called gospels were written in Greek, by Greek speakers and not a bunch of illiterate fishermen, it makes sense that when they needed to create a character they picked one from their own culture rather than the one they were purportedly writing about. Let me guess, by universal you mean educated citizens of the Roman Empire since we all know how fluent in Greek the Chinese, American Indians, Sub-Saharan Africans, and Australian Aborigines were 2000 years ago. RE: We can be certain of NO resurrection - A Response
September 30, 2015 at 1:02 pm
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2015 at 1:13 pm by Huggy Bear.)
Leave it to Wiki to get stupid on matters linguistic. The term you're looking for, Buggy, is lingua franca. Using the term "universal language" in its stead is an inaccurate reinvention of a perfectly fine wheel.
(September 30, 2015 at 1:14 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Leave it to Wiki to get stupid on matters linguistic. The term you're looking for, Buggy, is lingua franca. Using the term "universal language" in its stead is an inaccurate reinvention of a perfectly fine wheel. I don't think using the term "universal language" confuses anyone except Cato. (September 30, 2015 at 1:26 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(September 30, 2015 at 1:14 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Leave it to Wiki to get stupid on matters linguistic. The term you're looking for, Buggy, is lingua franca. Using the term "universal language" in its stead is an inaccurate reinvention of a perfectly fine wheel. I think using inapt terms confuses people who aren't educated. Cato certainly isn't in that group, but he certainly was pointing out inapt usage. (September 30, 2015 at 1:26 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(September 30, 2015 at 1:14 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Leave it to Wiki to get stupid on matters linguistic. The term you're looking for, Buggy, is lingua franca. Using the term "universal language" in its stead is an inaccurate reinvention of a perfectly fine wheel. What a dumbass. You misused the term universal and when called on it scrambled to find some strictly parsed use all the while accusing me of arguing a technicality. Your attempt to save face falls short since your tightened definition places severe geographic limitations on your god's communication ability; namely, as far as the culture from which your idiotic religion sprang had then to date traveled. So much for the broader point that god used Greek to spread his word to everyone because of its universality. Your argument is shit.  RE: We can be certain of NO resurrection - A Response
September 30, 2015 at 3:26 pm
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2015 at 3:28 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(September 30, 2015 at 12:42 pm)Cato Wrote: Let me guess, by universal you mean educated citizens of the Roman Empire since we all know how fluent in Greek the Chinese, American Indians, Sub-Saharan Africans, and Australian Aborigines were 2000 years ago. Yeah, well - f*** the Chinese, the Indians (both kinds) and the Africans! God's message was only meant for the white and perhaps a few slightly brown-ish people...  To think, that if god bothered to translate his message into Arabic, we could have been spared Islam, since the main reason for the rise and success of that religion was the fact that Arabs were butt-hurt for having been omitted. Not to mention that there could have been another 1.5 billion christians in China by now - especially that a lot of them could read and write 2000 years ago... Yeah, sure - Greek was definitely the way to go...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
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We can be certain of NO resurrection - A Response
