Subject: | Re: Need Explanation
| Date: | Thu, 1 Oct 2015 20:25:36 -0700
| From: | "Checkmate, DoW #1" <Lunatic.Fringe@The.Edge>
| Newsgroups: | alt.atheism,alt.philosophy.checkmate,alt.usenet.kooks
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In article <mukqjd$bte$1@dont-email.me>, tmcdonald2672@charter.net
says...
>
> On 10/1/2015 9:25 PM, Siri Cruz wrote:
> > In article <hlwdjsd2-DA064C.16391801102015@news.giganews.com>, Jeanne
> > Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> There's not a shred of evidence that this Jesus person ever
> >> existed.
> >
> > There's more evidence of Jesus and the Christ cult than there is of
> > many Roman emperors.
> >
> > I get it though. You're terrified if you acknowledge what you would
> > accept as evidence in any other argument, you would have to deal with
> > claims that this Jesus had supernatural signficance. After all a
> > couple of other Jews back then claimed to be Messiahs, but after they
> > died no one claimed to see them live again and their cults soon
> > vanished. So why didn't this Jesus cult die off like the others?
> >
> > No. Rather than deal with difficult questions, just close your eyes
> > and ears. See no controversy, hear no controversy, speak no
> > controversy.
> >
> Nope, sorry. There is plenty of evidence for the Christ cult. There is
> precious little of the man Jesus supposedly behind the cult, or rather
> the object of worship of the cult. The only 'facts' about the man are in
> the books written by some of those who worshiped him as a god, none of
> the actual writers of which had met him in his life, if he did exist. I
> know the story the cult leaders *who won the battle for Jesus* (many
> lost, you know) decided on, but the folks who wrote the gospels were not
> the actual disciples who are said to have known him in life. And Paul,
> the founder of the actual Christ cult, admitted to never having met him,
> but only to seeing a bright light and hearing a voice he thought was Jesus.
>
> So you have all your work ahead of you to prove that the Christ cult was
> based on a person who actually lived. If, that is, you give a fig about
> truth. That is not, obviously, a foregone conclusion.
Blind faith saves these people the hassle of trying to explain all that.
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