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Claiming that we need to let the lay reader know the religious leanings--or lack of them--of a mythicist writer is simply an undisguised attempt to infect that reader with a prejudice which will prevent him or her from evaluating the only thing that matters: the arguments and the evidence. It is an attempt to dismiss the mythicist case not through the legitimate means of rebutting and discrediting that case, but by the utterly illegitimate and dishonorable tactic of trying to a priori discredit the people who put them forward. I'd put it on the same level as a parent in a failed marriage fighting for custody of the children by accusing the other parent of having molested them. You're a discredit to any field of historical research, Abe. Of course, you don't belong there in the first place, because you've come on board here armed only with a closed mind set in concrete, a breathtaking ignorance about the thing you're mindlessly attacking, with your endless appeals to authority, and tactics that are beyond disreputable, beyond ignoble. You're impervious to reason, argumentation, and most of all, shame. I don't for one minute believe that you are an atheist or agnostic, as you seem to claim. That's a load of crap. If you're an atheist, I'll resign my own membership. Earl Doherty |
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'Christians have ruled themselves out as being capable of doing that. That leaves people like atheists, agnostics, humanists and new-agers, as you put it'. That statement is no better than what you were replying to and what you termed as, 'What a pile of garbage!'. The worldview of any person putting forward an HJ or MJ argument is completely irrelevant to that argument, be they atheist, agnostic (like Ehrman), Christian, or anything else. Trying to defend, and rightly so, the MJ camp from ad hominem because of their worldview and then committing that same ad hominem against HJ'ers who are Christian is both hypocrisy and a double standard. Matt |
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Christians are just as capable of doing THAT as atheists, agnostics or people of any other worldview. To assert they are not is ad hominem. Matt |
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but, they are for the most part rather resistent to doing THAT and thus we might query how 'just as capable' they are? |
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I guess then that sex and religion have at least one thing in common; yet I'm not ready to live my life in celibacy.
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"You cannot conceive the many without the One" Or are we only allowed to have magical supernatural being type Gods? |
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