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Thread #158223   Message #3746957
Posted By: Steve Shaw
27-Oct-15 - 05:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Pope in America
Subject: RE: BS: The Pope in America
The quotes are insufficient in the extreme. Any assertion that Jesus was real requires you to give historical references and some corroboration, if you are to have any credibility. I've been honest enough to research whatever there is and to address the rather poor examples that you added to the mix. There is not a single convincing non-Christian reference to Jesus. That is quite amazing. Take any other significant historical figure and show me a similar paucity of references. Quite simply, you can't. A fairly kind conclusion could be that the tendentious-minded and proselytising early Christians, with their gospels and epistles, wanted to flood the world with Jesus references, and who's to blame them? Pity that the other prevailing forces of the time seem to, er, have overlooked the poor fellow! Please don't take this as a denial of his existence. It isn't. It's a sort of null hypothesis that you really need to address. Is it important? Why, yes it is, because, after all, you tell your kids that that there was a Jesus, born in a stable to a virgin, who raised the dead, turned water to wine and came back from the dead. You also tell them that there's a Santa. By the age of seven or eight, they are allowed to ditch Santa and laugh. But you really do not want them to ditch Jesus, and it's no laughing matter.