It sounds like we're working our way through a syllogism, at least! So now: 3. Well okay, some of the people are real, and some of the stories are real, but if I can't explain a story naturally then it's myth. |
Washington is a deliberate example because of the mountains of evidence. There are mountains of evidence for the existence of Christ and the apostles. |
What your failed reasoning is missing is that even if a person who we would call Jesus was real, it does not make it true that he was the son of some God, born to a virgin, or that he died and came back to life. This all equals a myth. |
Lol. Mountains of evidence for a real Jesus. Provide just a fraction of it. ![]() |
Oh dear. Someone missed out on a liberal arts education. |
Sort of both? Culturally Catholic due to ancestors but not spiritually Catholic. |
No. If you can't show evidence for something then there is no reason to believe it. |
There are more and better mountains for Washington |
We agree: it's a difference of degree, not of kind. |
If there is so much proof, why such a struggle to provide even one little iota? |
The religious antecedents were. |
For the religious defender, where is the proof of any of this? I thought you said there were "mountains" of evidence? |
Correct. For example --- just because there was a real King named Nickolas who was very generous, doesn't mean the myth of Santa Claus is true. That is, it doesn't mean that there is a guy living at the North Pole making toys for Christian children (only), with the help of elves, that he delivers on Christmas Eve via a flying sleigh with 8 tiny reindeer. |
That's probably what was said by the clergy person who told pp that Jesus was a real person |
I’m an atheist but I support the religion of my ancestors because it is the reason we have western civilization and I have freedom, rights, and prosperity. |