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- From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: The Bible As A Rorschach
- Message-ID: <1hti24INNis8@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 01:23:16 GMT
- References: <9211241258.AA21354@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com> <1992Dec28.230529.19778@arden.linet.org> <12220@kesson.ed.ac.uk> <1992Dec31.020043.25959@arden.linet.org>
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- In article <1992Dec31.020043.25959@arden.linet.org>, joeb@arden.linet.org (Joe Beiter) writes:
- >
- >> This is certainly a claim which is worth considering. I'll sooner
- >> believe that it was all a lie than that what the Gospels say about
- >> Jesus of Nazareth is anything other than a lie.
- >
- > A lie of that extent would have been uncovered and squashed during that
- > time and would not have lived.
-
- A lie of *what* extent? A lie that said Jerusalem was in China would have
- been squashed. But a lie that said an unknown man in a distant province
- had risen from the dead?
-
- What does "uncovered and squashed" mean anyway? Does it mean some
- people would have refused to believe it? Well, many people did and
- still do refuse to believe it.
-
- Now what?
-
-
- > How long does a lie like that live now-a-days? (ie: Nixon/Watergate,
- > Regan/contras, Quayle/intelligence, Swaggart/lust etc..)
-
- Are you serious? There are still people who believe Nixon did nothing
- wrong. There are still people who think Quayle isn't a complete idiot.
- There are still people who believe Swaggart's version.
-
- Come to think of it, there are still people who believe that the Earth
- was created in seven days about six thousand years ago.
-
- jon.
-