duke wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:08:10 -0500, Uncle Vic <address@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>
>>> Yet it has held fast and grown to a firm belief by over 2.2 billion
>>> people alive and well today.
>
>> Bandwagon fallacy, also known as Argumentum Ad Numerum. A widely held
lie
>> is still a lie.
>
> So is truth.
Ummm.... huh?
>> Unfortunately, most people are willing to accept the most
>> absurd stories on faith rather than face the imaginary consequences
that
>> have been pounded into their skulls since they were old enough to parse
>> language.
>
> Our eternal salvation depends on it, even though you don't care about
yours.
It's not a case of not caring, simply a case of not believing. If there
was any reason to think that there is eternal salvation, then I'd care
about it. I see no such reason. :-)
>> Even more unfortunately, it only takes a little bit of
>> investigation to see how full of **** your stories are, including your
>> Ultimate Punishment.
>
> No one has ever come back to speak about it.
>
>>> If it was a fake, it would have died out 2000 years ago.
>
>> Which is why the "Ultimate Punishment" was added to the dogma.
Otherwise
>> your religion would be on the same list as Mithraism and
Zoroastrianism.
>> Got any evidence that Jesus is any more real than Zoroaster?
>
> Yep, he rose from the dead and walked and talked and ate and drank with
500+ of
> his disciples for 40 days, according to 500+ eye witnesses.
Sauron did the same trick. He came back and started a war, and surely
was seen by more than a paltry 500 eyewitnesses! His hordes are cooler
than Jesus' too.
>
>> Making claims without backing them is not evidence.
>
> Having a cup of wine is.
I'm not sure it's evidence, but we might agree that it's not a bad way
to end a hard day.
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