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To: Solon who wrote (67766)	7/6/2015 5:22:59 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Message 30136534 "...Because many people's minds are infected with religion, they don't like to question the existence of their savior or prophet. Religion causes people to accept irrational ideas with little or no evidence. If I were to say that banana Popsicles can make people invisible, most people would likely ask for a little proof. But, a very old book emulates other myths of the time and says that 2000 years ago some guy was born with a ghost as his father and a virgin as his mother; this guy did miracles, was killed, came back to life, and rose bodily up to heaven — and billions of people accept the story seemingly without question. So, let's look at the evidence we have. From the earliest Christian epistle authors such as Paul, we have little to indicate that Jesus was a real person. And, we have strong evidence that to them he was just a spiritual sky god, constructed from earlier myths. From the later (and unknown) writers of the gospels, we have a story that grew over time, with more fantastical events added as the story was told and re-told — just like a myth. None of the gospel authors even claimed to have met Jesus. From the historians of the first century we have nothing. Nothing... "For more on Christian historicity and atheism, see www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/Debate.html#hist and www.godlessgeeks.com/WhyAtheism.htm Copyright © 2014. Mark W. Thomas. All rights reserved.