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- From: I3150101@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de (Benedikt Rosenau)
- Subject: Re: Easter whodunnit
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- Organization: Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
- References: <12479@sorley.ed.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.235526.6882@nmsu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:17:19 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- In article <1993Jan25.235526.6882@nmsu.edu>
- epowers@mccoy (POWERS) writes:
-
- >
- >In article <12479@sorley.ed.ac.uk> iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- >writes:
- >
- >> The most likely explanation is that the witness is lying. The reason
- >> that there were no guards is that it made no sense for there to be
- >> any. I can't imagine an officer who, short of being out of his mind,
- >> would send soldiers to guard the body of an executed criminal, as if
- >> it were some object of value or as if the army had nothing else to do.
- >>
- >
- > The idea that guards were present is too easily verifiable from
- >local records, and the locals themselves. It would be easy to lie to you
- >and me, certainly, but how easy would it be to lie about a thing like that
- >in the same city where the events occurred? Lying in this situation about
- >something so easily checked out would be beyond dense.
-
-
- Come on, the stories about it were not written until a generation passed.
- Go and ask Romans in the Judaea of 60 to 70 if they sent guards to a
- grave thirty years ago. They would pobably tell that they had about three
- messiahs that day only.
-
-
- The guards were there at a time noone could see them, that is the point
- of the story. All the law abiding people were at home and only Romans and
- criminals roamed the country. And Romans could not have cared less for
- the corpse of a convicted criminal.
-
-
- And when it is so easily verified, how come the authors differ so much?
- And anyway, this argument from lack of contradiction seems to come from
- the assumption that you could buy 'Jesus, his life, his miracles, his
- resurrections' at every corner.
-
- In my not so humble opinion, comparing what the guy is supposed to have
- done to the numbers of people who have been convinced by it is the
- easiest refutation possible.
-
-
- And, the usual argument, more than one religion tells this story, all
- with supposedly real people, why exactly do you believe in the Christian
- myth?
- Benedikt
-