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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]because the gospels were written by different people at different times, and all mirror the same basic story.  also, it is established by historians that a jew preacher named Jesus was executed by the Romans, and it is mostly accepted that his followers did not try to stop this execution and basically had given up by this time.  something happened after the trial and execution to convince these many disciples to travel all over the then known world and preach the message, and almost all suffered agonizing brutal deaths for their efforts.  so what happened after the execution to convince these men to martyr themselves?

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the first point isn't really evidence, the existance at one time of one central oral tradition doesn't make it any more true.

The fact that so many people were willing to give their lives, well, the same goes for Islamic and Tamil Tiger suicide bombers, the followers of that guy in Guyana who all drank the cool aid, the worshippers of the various Aztec gods who sacrificed their children etc. etc.

OP, to answer your question, of course there is no evidence that this isn't just a story (though I admit there may have been a rabbi named Jesus on whom some of the stories were based).  It is religion, not science, and there are many different religions, all with their own stories and myths.  There is no reason to believe any one of them is more true than another.  and in fact, the christian one, with its pregnant virgins and rising from the dead, is more silly than most.  Maybe a billion or two people believe it, but that leaves 4 billion that don't.[/quote]

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