NorthOfNorth wrote on Apr 10
th, 2014 at 6:37am:
Why so many Christians get hung up on insisting on Jesus existence in fact is a bit of a mystery... They should take a leaf out of the Buddhists' book... Tradition and faith is what is relevant to the veracity of the teachings, not irrefutable fact... After all, isn't that the essence of religion?
"Why so many..." - I am not sure it's that many. Perhaps the officials of the Catholic Church would, publicly, speak about the literal truth of it all and some/many of the more fervent evangelicals, officials or not.
But I'd say most people (like Spuffort, for example, and most Anglicans) wouldn't be hung up about the particulars. They would know that it is the sacred story and the mystery that matter, not the forensics or the science of it.
NorthOfNorth wrote on Apr 10
th, 2014 at 6:37am:
Soren wrote on Apr 10
th, 2014 at 12:00am:
If you want to call ALL that into doubt, go ahead. It's you versus 2000 years of thinking, reading, writing and discussion.
Tell 'em, dickeaddle, where they ALL went wrong.
"Drink more piss... A million drunks can't be wrong" !
If only all religions were like Buddhism! Especially Christianity. And most especially Catholicism.