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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (715852)	5/16/2013 7:43:05 PM
From: SilentZ	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583725

>And these Christians were considered to be reliable witnesses to the EXISTENCE of Jesus Christ, if not the divinity thereof. Yeah, but that doesn't mean they were! >This evidence is in addition to the first-hand accounts of Jesus' existence by the Christians themselves. The four canonized Gospels themselves should be sufficient evidence of his existence, but there are many other non-canonized records which also makes the same assumption. There are books about Zeus, and Achilles, and Gilgamesh, and plenty of other people/deities who never existed. >Yet disproving the existence of Jesus matters so much to you that you claim to have spent hours researching the topic. I'm fascinated by religion. I took courses in college about this stuff. It's really interesting, and it's one of the things that makes the world go round. I've read the Koran, much of the Old Testament, plenty of books about religions. When I'm interested in things, I read about them and learn all I can. I've also spent days of my life reading books on late 19th century and early 20th century U.S. Presidents. What does that mean to you? >Sounds like you hate the notion of people creating their entire world views around one man who claims to be the son of God. I don't hate it. I don't get it, but I don't hate it. >And that would explain your predisposition to believe that Jesus never existed. I spent 30 years believing he did. I spent 20 years thinking Moses existed. I never questioned it. But my interest got piqued, and I've studied it. >How you work your relationship out with your Christian GF is none of my business, but I do think you have some serious issues with the very existence of Christianity. Eh. Not really. Just with people who use it to justify things that are bad for society and hurt people. Keep playing the victim card. Christians are the majority in the country and in the world, but they're still whiny-ass victims. -Z