• Professor gets attacked on Fox News for writing a book about Christianity as a Muslim
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He would probably have been less insulted if he was interviewed on jerry springer than this.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;41624565]That lack of sources not being surprising thing makes no sense, how is it that there's more solid evidence of some prefect of Judea than the supposed founder of massive global religion? Accepting him as a real historic figure means accepting parts of the Bible as historically accurate, and that's just silly.[/QUOTE] Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, especially when your standard for "evidence" is beyond asinine. Let me ask you two questions: a.) what manner of primary or secondary source would we have to procure to CONVINCE YOU that he was a real historical figure? b.) What evidence do you have that discredits the sources others have already given you? Or more to the point, why are you so resolute in your assertion that he didn't exist?
I thought that Jesus was on the same level of existence as Homer, but I suppose I was wrong! :o
[QUOTE=Flameon;41642213]Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence[/QUOTE] I really hate that phrase. Please kindly never use it again because it has been used to defend Aliens building the Pyramids, Bigfoot, The Loch Ness Monster, and every other stupid conspiracy theory in the last 100 years. What you're saying is "No, I don't have proof but you can't prove it's NOT true!"
haha when she said "why would a democrat support democracy" or something along that line and immediately realized what she said was so stupid [editline]30th July 2013[/editline] also, if anyone's interested he did an interview with jon oliver not too long ago [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYOm_GrzFVI [/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPpWX__snsg [/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=816dHpqDDjQ [/media]
[QUOTE=doomkiwi;41645701]I really hate that phrase. Please kindly never use it again because it has been used to defend Aliens building the Pyramids, Bigfoot, The Loch Ness Monster, and every other stupid conspiracy theory in the last 100 years. What you're saying is "No, I don't have proof but you can't prove it's NOT true!"[/QUOTE] The phrase itself is perfectly fine it's the logic you're adding to it is stupid. A hypothesis is proven wrong when you have evidence contradicting it, not when you lack evidence supporting it.
And here's me thinking the mankind is mostly through with arguing over existance of Jesus Christ. It is largely irrelevant if he existad. His existence in real history bears as much significance as his nonexistence. Precisely, none. It is religious techings that influenced the development of modern societies, be it positive or negative influence, but not the actual person these teachings speak of. Bible is mostly a book of mythology and parables. How is this even relevant to decide whether or not the events it speaks of actually ever happened? It misses more points than it makes.
Oh man. She was so terrible at her job. The professor was such a nice guy!
Sorry for the thread bump, just had a bit to add. Reza was a religion teacher in the mid 90s (I know) at my Catholic high school. He taught world religions, and his class was awesome. Seriously smart and friendly guy, not surprised at all in how well he handled himself. He actually fought with the administration of an upper middle class Catholic school to be able to include a section on race in religion. Stand up dude all around.
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