Thanks for that link, I did miss that.
"Your bias is showing, Min. You intentionally chose to ignore the true qualifications of Vermes, and we can conclude you did it with them all. "
And you refuse to see that these people have a built in bias to see what they want.
Let me try this again....ONE MORE TIME.
I don't give a flying fuck what any of these so-called "experts" claim. You can tell me that they shit golden turds and it doesn't matter. All of them make their living by maintaining that some of this holy horseshit is true and writing books for idiots who are desperate to believe it. What they agree on seems to vary quite a bit but goddamn it they know that there was some asshole named "jesus" who got himself killed. They know this BECAUSE THEY READ IT IN THE FUCKING GOSPELS. It exists no where else. (Paul, even if that shit were real, knows fuck-all about the crucifixion story as it later developed.) They dismiss all the miracle stories - or make excuses for them. They ignore the obvious tie-ins to Greek philosophy which pre-date jesus' teachings by several centuries. They ignore the historical anomalies. But, the one thing they cling to like hungry squirrels with the last acorn on earth is that jesus really, really, really, was crucified by Pilate...although I don't think they agree on the date. What makes that claim so special? I doubt you will find many of them who are ready to accept the resurrection story or that jesus flew up to heaven. Why can you not see the cherry-picking?
"Your bias is showing, Min. You intentionally chose to ignore the true qualifications of Vermes, and we can conclude you did it with them all. "
And you refuse to see that these people have a built in bias to see what they want.
Let me try this again....ONE MORE TIME.
I don't give a flying fuck what any of these so-called "experts" claim. You can tell me that they shit golden turds and it doesn't matter. All of them make their living by maintaining that some of this holy horseshit is true and writing books for idiots who are desperate to believe it. What they agree on seems to vary quite a bit but goddamn it they know that there was some asshole named "jesus" who got himself killed. They know this BECAUSE THEY READ IT IN THE FUCKING GOSPELS. It exists no where else. (Paul, even if that shit were real, knows fuck-all about the crucifixion story as it later developed.) They dismiss all the miracle stories - or make excuses for them. They ignore the obvious tie-ins to Greek philosophy which pre-date jesus' teachings by several centuries. They ignore the historical anomalies. But, the one thing they cling to like hungry squirrels with the last acorn on earth is that jesus really, really, really, was crucified by Pilate...although I don't think they agree on the date. What makes that claim so special? I doubt you will find many of them who are ready to accept the resurrection story or that jesus flew up to heaven. Why can you not see the cherry-picking?
Robert G. Ingersoll : “No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.”
