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See, I was right. We can't communicate.
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I will go so far as to concede an asymmetry in that I can understand you but you can't understand me.
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I have watched you through an arc of change from your first comments in our discussion off into no-man's-land. Here again are your first position: the simplest explanation of Christianity is that it goes back to somebody, and any suppositious version of that somebody who is not Jesus is even less attested by evidence than Jesus and even less plausible.And here is your last: OK, yes, for the sake of argument I am canvassing the possibility that Jesus-the-figure is not a necessary condition for Christianity, on the basis that we can't be sure about what the first Christians believed.I do like the coherence. But, of course, you're misunderstood. spin |
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I have attempted to adapt the way I expressed myself to take account of the way I found you discussing the subject. Evidently you don't grasp this process. If I started again from scratch I would approach things differently again. But I don't see any point, since you would doubtless respond by pointing out what seem to you to be inconsistencies with what I said earlier.
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