AR 282, I didn't call you Dick Cheney, I said your were pulling a Dick Cheney. That's questioning your reasoning, not attacking you personally. Unless, of course, you regard someone's questioning your reasoning as an ad hominem attack. Please don't tell me about logical fallacies. Recognizing them is one of my areas of expertise.

And please don't try to pick a fight when there isn't one. Now, back to our regular broadcast:   

I have a tendency to think that Yeshua or Joshua was, probably not as common as the name "Mohammed" is currently in the Middle East, but certainly common. There were a whole heap of Joshuas running around back then, including the one who fit the battle of Jericho. Probably just about every Jewish mother would have liked it if her son grew up the be the savior of his people.

Everyone's name has some kind of meaning. For example, my first name is Donald. Celtic, it means meaning "proud chief, world leader." My middle name is Richard, French, German, or Old English, and it means "powerful ruler."

With a pair of names like that, how come everybody bosses me around!??

I think that questioning the actual existence of Jesus on the basis that the name means "savior" is just a bit weak.

Don Firth