For some reason I am unable to respond to posts addressed to me. In the meantime I will use this awkward method.
"You said "Christianity is no more "historical" than any other religion."
I said: "That is an ignorant statement."
I'm not trying to be rude or hurt your feelings, I'm just stating a fact.
(You are not hurting my feelings-LOL! Don't be bizarre! You ARE being ignorant and rude and dismissive of ALL other religions...ALL of which have the same or more "historical" claims as Christianity. Also, as you know (or ought to know), we have been using "historical "claim"" to refer to evidentiary value...not to the FACT that primitives or lunatics assert such and such or so and so. It is of no value to our discussion, that primitive religions (as well as most in the last century of "modern" times), prima facie assert nonsensical, absurd, and risible "events". We are not concerned with the historical fact of the Hale-Bopp beliefs. WE question whether the beliefs were sensible or nonsensical. Likewise with Christian ideas adopted from previous mythologies."
How can you blame me when you persist in equating Christianity (that claims historical veracity) with mythological religions which clearly do not?
"They all claim "historical veracity". Indeed (as has been repeatedly shown), Christianity is a collation and re-invention of myths and beliefs which go back to the dawn of homo sapiens when humans grunted and pointed. The ark story, the virgin birth, the resurrection, absurd miracles--these are all tired and commonplace."
The rest of your post is as bizarre as it is baseless. It completely misrepresents my position. Are you practicing your creative writing?
"If your position is "misrepresented" it is something you must own. If "historical claim" is the simple (and rather meaningless) evaluation of whether or not a "claim" occurred (as you seemed to suggest in a post to either Scott or Mars), then your "arguments" are as silly as your accusations. Nobody was doubting that Christians make certain claims, or that primitive and superstitious writers made certain "claims"...we were questioning rather those claims have any truth value as being representative of a reality that may be scientifically attested to.
And no...it has been many years since I took any "courses". I was merely mocking your arrogant dismissal of other religions." |
