alt.education

On Sep 23, 8:17 am, Dave Oldridge
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> Martin Phipps wrote innews: @ :
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> > On Sep 22, 1:44 pm, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> >> Martin Phipps wrote:
> >> >> There are errors and ambiguities and contradictions in every book
> >> >> written by human beings, and the errors in other historical
> >> >> sources of the period are probably just as severe. That argument
> >> >> only works against literalists.
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> >> >The bottom line is that if in a criminal court case it was claimed
> >> >that there was a man at the scene named Jesus that most people
> >> >hadn't even seen and, on top of that, the people who claimed that
> >> >they had seen him couldn't even get their story straight then the
> >> >jury would conclude that this Jesus fellow never existed and that
> >> >the "witnesses" were perjuring themselves.
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> >> I doubt it.
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> > People today are more sophisticated that people two thousand years
> > ago. Even then, people had to be told that "blessed are those who
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> Actually, I think the reverse may be true. 2000 years ago you would have
> had a hard time selling biblical literalism.

Oh come on! Back then _everybody_ believed in some god or another.
Back then, it wasn't a question of whether a god created the universe
but a question of _which_ god. People don't believe in Zeus or Odin
anymore so why do some people still believe in Yehweh?

Martin