04-30-2012, 07:52 AM
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Originally Posted by sotto voce
The Milvian Bridge was the boundary. If you're interested in archaeology, try this for size:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Archofconstantine.jpg
So there is solid evidence for HJ. Massive, even. Go and bang your heads on it, all ye of little faith. Obey the Great Con. Note the girth of the neck, the paucity of the skull.
But you are right, I was a touch 'previous'. The battle will be 1700 years old in six months' time on October 28th. Catholics everywhere will say a Mass for their founder. Quietly, of course. |
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If there is a secret brotherhood to keep mythicism at bay it would have to be found in the actions of the 19th century Vatican Popes and papal archaeologists, such as de Rossi & Co, who collated the first volume of "Inscriptiones christianae urbis Romae". This source of archaeological data contains many items of claimed evidence which, upon examination, are entirely questionable.
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But everything about the Vatican is questionable. It was originally founded on crime, it today exists courtesy of Mussolini, a fascist inspired by the Roman Empire that founded it. Of course this shambolic cult has to effect indignation at MJ, just as it has to feign opposition to breaches of the moral law. But, after the shouting, the drama, the monster mountebanks will share a jovial beer or something stronger in the bar with any atheist chum.
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Business is business.
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Many scholars have accepted and are accepting items of evidence from this source on an authoritative and uncritical basis, because the source has been accepted by earlier scholars.
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No. As I've written before, scholars have no option. It's the billions around the world who decide that HJ is their eternal study, because they won't have it any other way.
Why is this? People simply cannot believe that the human race could ever in sixty billion years have invented the biblical record. The more they discover about it, the less likely it can be what mythicists say it is.
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Fiction?
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