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VyckRo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frum
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
leg,·end (ljnd)
1.
a. An unverified story handed down from earlier times, especially one popularly believed to be historical.
b. A body or collection of such stories.
c. A romanticized or popularized...
Because if you have a political agenda to try and minimize what control religion have on the plebs, people might stop believing, and that would make baby jebus sad!!!
Not to mention that it would hurt the revenue, and lessen the imagined authority of religious con artists.
Which I am all...
:lol:
Sorry, but creationists are not in the "scientific" realm, there might be creationists that are scientists but when it comes to science they fail, because they adhere to their religious beliefs instead of doing science.
The creationists peer-reviewed "scientific" journals is nothing more...
Oh Oh Oh!
I know a better one!
Is any of the "material" from creationists (which he deemed to be "so goood!") peer-reviewed?
I don't need jesus, I don't have a garden.
Bollocks.
Tacitus etc, doesn't mention Jesus, and even if he did, he's not contemporary to jesus, at best (which I've pointed out) he's repeating hearsay.
Because there is no evidence for jesus in those documents, at best it's hearsay, at worst it's christians bending over backwards in order...
Off another "close minded" stick. And actually your analogy is flawed, since after all, I know that global warming is happening, I can stick my head out the window and notice the lack of snow where I live for one thing. And I live in a country where in winter time, it snows. (of course mild...
He did write why he thinks the passage is a fraud, and he lists the reasons why, didn't see you mention anything to counter it, well except "historians" disagree.
You are getting really close to appeal to authority.
Bollocks,dodged, Estimated DOB and DOD, does not jesus exist make.
Again...
Any specifics about that page that you find false? Or iffy?
Which at least for me, rules out religion entirely.
Oh, I agree with you here too. I mean he could just be someone who walked the earth talking to people and then his story got exaggerated. It wouldn't be the first time a story has...
Of course they are. It's the standard reply.
Did you even bother to read it?
There can never be a middle ground, (tm) everyone is always on an agenda.
The difference between Homer and jesus, is that Homer isn't portrayed as the "savior" of mankind and the "one" who died for our "sins."
If...
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/josephus-etal.html#pseudotacitus
You might have to scroll down a bit to get by the "usual" suspects of christian "non christian" evidence.
At best, hearsay, at worst outright fraud.