On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:34:03 -0400, ogrowup@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Padraigh
ProAmerica) wrote:
==>The truth of thr Gospels ca b inferred from this.
==>
==>When Jesus died, his followers were in funk. They decided to go back to
==>their jobs.
==>
==>The the women who had gone to propely pepare the body for burial came
==>running back- the tomb was empty!
==>
==>The twelve (now eleven, after the suicide of Judas) soon found that
==>Jesus had ben raised from the dead, just as He had said He would.
==>
==>Ater the Ascension, the eleven disciples elected a new mmber to replace
==>Judas (Matthaias), and began spreadig the Gospel.
==>
==>Of these twelve, eleven were to be martyred for their new faith (only
==>John would die of old age).
==>
==>This is the key. These men believed what they had seen. They could not
==>have made up this story and stolen the body. No man is willing to die
==>for what he knows is a lie.
==>Even if one were to do this, would twelve? The fact they were willing
to
==>die for this is evidence that they knew SOMETHING had happened...
Congratulations. The above is just about the most
childish, asinine, brain-dead argument for the
veracity of Christian belief I've ever read.
The only thing it accurately demonstrates is that
religion keeps one stupid.
"The truth is, there is not a person on Earth who has
a good reason to believe that Jesus rose from the dead
or that Muhammad spoke to the angel Gabriel in a cave.
And yet billions of people claim to be certain about
such things. As a result, Iron Age ideas about
everything high and low -- ***, cosmology, gender
equality, immortal souls, the end of the world, the
validity of prophecy, etc. -- continue to divide our
world and subvert our national discourse." -Sam Harris
--
Christianity is a toxic mind-**** that has reduced much of mankind to
stumbling stooges whose perception of reality has been smothered under
a sludge of myth and fantasy, a reality where the improbable rules,
peopled by phantoms. -Ivan Gowch
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