October 2009 SCrewballs

Since it is October in the other hemisphere...

Plus I may not be online early tomorrow.

John Loftus.

~~Member~~ Oh, wait, he's on ... vacation.

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) Curtmudgeon

Yo lunch

JP Holding, for the capitalization typo in the thread title.

Yes, I'm that petty.

Eru for not being as cool as the Shadowmaster.

AP for the above heresy.

(wow, how quickly these threads go off-topic)

Originally posted by Eru Ilúvatar
AP for the above heresy.

(wow, how quickly these threads go off-topic)

How quickly? It took us until post 6! We're slacking!

Yahoo Answers lays down the law on people who believe Jesus was a historical person:

Anybody that cites Tacitus as evidence is a [dingleberry].

He said that Christianity was founded on somebody named Christus. He never met him. He was assuming the same thing people have been assuming for two millenia.

He also said that Christianity was a "dangerous superstition", and that the Christians were "a class hated for their abominations".

Source(s):
Common sense

I think it's probably true. There's no reason to believe the man ever existed. What is recorded of him was written hundreds of years later based on oral stories and who knows what else.

It's true. There is no historical evidence that he ever existed.

The New Testament borrowed and reinvented ridiculous amounts of information from the Old Testament. I would not be surprised if Jesus was always nothing more than another Jewish Mystic fictional manifestation of Moses.

Although it is not unreasonable to believe that Jesus did exist...but only as religious teacher - not a son of God.
Source(s):
Atheist

I didn't know being an atheist suddenly makes you a scholarly source.

Evidence is for freethinkers to wave away, not use.

JP, if you haven't noticed, the "c" in screwball is capitalized in this thread's title.

subscribing

Next reply in the Vox-CSA debate is up.
http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=3660

And has the "objection" to theistic evolution ever been posted before?
http://www.infidels.org/library/mode...evolution.html



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