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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank

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To: Neocon who wrote (15077)5/31/2001 12:11:23 PM
From: thames_sider  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Well, it's plausible because
- it is independently verifiable, with sources and attestations
- it is logically constructed
- it does not require revocation of causality
- the motivations, rationale and course of events follow logically and do not contradict
- it does not require any supernatural happening - i.e., the only actions and happenings required are those which could happen today and within human ability then and now
- it can be argued without preconceptions or bias, except that only what can happen now could happen then (the laws of nature and causality are not altered)
- it doesn't ask me to accept anything on 'faith'

Those together I found convincing enough; and I was genuinely starting from the acceptance that a historical Jesus, referred to as Christ, really had existed in Roman Israel and probably had been crucified, even though I believed little of what was said about him afterwards.
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