Bible stories and reality

[Solitary]

Have you read Will Durant's History Of The World? I don't understand how he can think Jesus actually existed after he goes through all the former religions, when it is so obvious that the Judeo-Muslim-Christian  religions are mere repeating of former religions thousands of years before them, and the fact nothing is written about Jesus until another religion came to Rome at the same time it was written down. I think he had to know, but his books wouldn't have gotten published. Christianity has such control over everything even now. You should have fun when the theists come around.

[SGOS]

www.miraclesceptic.com/
The Church says we should believe miracle tales when told by very trustworthy people.  The Church says, "If we refuse to believe trustworthy miracle tales we must ask ourselves if we should believe any testimony to anything!" 

Well, that's really convenient, isn't it?

[ApostateLois]

Very trustworthy people can be fooled into believing things that are not true, and then they repeat those things while being perfectly sincere about it. And sometimes, people are not as trustworthy as we think they are, and might be lying for their own benefit. So, no, we shouldn't believe just any old thing people tell us without having really good evidence to back it up. Really, it boils down to the religious person accepting THEIR religion while rejecting everyone else's simply because they were raised in a particular culture. There are many trustworthy, honest Hindus who sincerely believe that Ganesha is real, yet Christians do not believe their testimonies about the miracles performed by this deity.

[SGOS]

Very trustworthy people can be fooled into believing things that are not true, and then they repeat those things while being perfectly sincere about it. And sometimes, people are not as trustworthy as we think they are, and might be lying for their own benefit. So, no, we shouldn't believe just any old thing people tell us without having really good evidence to back it up.

Yep.  That's where the bullshit stops.  Authority and anecdote have always been a poor substitutes for fact finding.