Re: SO MANY GODS

On 19 Jan 2008 23:19:01 -0600, bob young <alaspectrum@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

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>duke wrote:
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>> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:03:52 -0800 (PST), SkyEyes <skyeyes9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
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>> >There is *no* empirical or historical evidence that Jesus is anything
>> >other than a fictional character (probably an amalgam created from the
>> >personas of several itinerant first-century Jewish preachers).
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>> He's historical.  As evidenced by scripture and the many writings of
others from
>> the time period.
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>These writings were done hundreds of years later than the claimed time,
excatly
>when, is unknown.
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>The first Bible of the kind you rely on possibly appeared around 1400.
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>Words from such a book are NOT evidence

And since the entity shown in the from line as "bob young" (whether it
exists
or not) is the sole arbiter and evaluator of evidence, there shall be no
further discussion.


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