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Findings cast doubt on the existence of Jesus Christ (www.alternet.org)

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[-] Hypx@fedia.io 0 points 5 months ago

Those are generic Mythicist arguments. You lose credibility by even using such lazy and unoriginal ones. The fundamental problem is that it makes it impossible to demonstration that virtually anyone in history has ever existed because the burden of proof is set so high.

[-] KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago

My credibility isn't on the table, You made the claim, the burden to back it up on you. Thus far you've offered assertions, question begging and ad hominem attacks, do you have any actual evidence for your position?

[-] Hypx@fedia.io -1 points 5 months ago

This is not a new debate. It is been around for decades, and historical scholars have pretty much dismissed the mythicist position ages ago. The fact is that there is textual evidence of a historical Jesus, enough for historical scholars to conclude that there was one. In response, mythicists have resorted to dismissing all such evidence as being insufficient. Everything is a fake or forgery according to them.

The result is an argument that can be used against any person from history, until you can dismiss virtually all of history as being not real. That's the problem with your argument. It has very little credibility because of that history.

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