Thanks Ismael, well said.
Jesus was a big splash, modernity still sees the ripples.
Do you believe in a literal Christ?
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jgnat
Thank you. Mad Giant. QC, I think you see what you want to see. If I read Mad Giant well, there are ripples but no splash...no contemporary accounts. We have accounts about Christians, say, a hundred years or so later, but that's not exactly contemporary.
http://humweb.ucsc.edu/gweltaz/courses/history/hist_5B/Lectures/pliny_96.pdf
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jgnat
Seraphim, are you being facetious? How is the Shroud of Turin any more evidential than burnt toast?
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QueenWitch
I think it's possible that there was a historical Jesus like there was a historical Buddha.
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designs
A nice intinerant rabbi that got co-opted by the Tea Party.
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Seraphim23
Jgnat, I’m being serious. It’s so much more interesting than burnt toast.
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adamah
Seraphim said-
Jgnat, I’m being serious. It’s so much more interesting than burnt toast.
Problem is, it's not COMPELLING (at least not any more compelling that any other faded tie-dye image).
Adam
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transhuman68
If Jesus appeared on my piece of toast I'd cover him with jam and eat him. I like Jesus.
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designs
You mean Hercules is fake to
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Seraphim23
Adamah, it’s compelling to me. It is the first ever photograph in human history, whatever else one might say.
