By the way, Joe, I took a photo yesterday of Caravaggio's masterpiece of Abraham holding a very sharp blade to his son's throat. Funny you should have mentioned it! Saw another amazing painting of the slaughter of the innocents. Can't remember the artist's name. Shame the incident never happened... 'Slaughter of the innocents' never happened? That's easy to claim, but difficult to prove. Just as it's difficult to prove that it did happen. But there is some evidence (the Gospels) to say it did happen. No evidence to say it didn't. I accept that it's possible that not everything in the Bible is an historic record, but don't claim it's false with nothing to back that up, or we can claim it's all 100% true without needing anything to back it up. Some standard of debate needs to be established.
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