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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (26189)	7/12/1999 8:38:00 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

<< rational historical facts >> Let's get down to business. There is only one fact that matters in this legend, and that is the resurrection. And THAT you can't prove. And it is the most unbelievable. And it is the one that con men will push because it pulls in the scared sheep. The ones that can't see through the con game of Pascal's wager. You say there are multiple references to the resurrection in the Bible? Yes, there are, and they differ. One of them is in (as I recall) the last half of Mark 16. Funny thing about this one, though. The earlist versions of the Book of Mark don't have that last half at all. Only the later ones. You'd swear someone added it in later. << The Apostles were honest men who preferred death to bad records and deeds. >> This has the ring of the old "Would they have died for a lie?" argument. The answer is "Yes". They just didn't know it was a lie. If you use willingness to die as a criterion of truth, then all religions and all political systems are TRUE.