XPost: alt.atheism   
   From: smiler@jo.king   
      
   On Fri, 29 May 2015 20:45:05 -0400, mur wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 23 May 2015 08:18:46 -0500, Mitchell Holman    
   > wrote:   
      
      
      
   >>       Yep. Gullible people are always willing to   
   >>believe in the powers of shamans and fortune tellers and miracle healers   
   >>and, of course, priests.   
   >   
   >     Back when it got started people could have found out by asking   
   >     around   
   > whether or not the things written about Jesus ever took place. If they   
   > got in touch with people in towns where things were supposed to have   
   > happened, and those people said they never heard anything about it, then   
   > they'd have no reason to believe. Quite the opposite.   
      
   How were they to get to those towns? Train, bus, car, plane?   
   Or do you believe they used email to question those people?   
   And, like you, why would they question what their priest or parents taught   
   them and why would they accept the word of non-believers?   
      
   --   
   Smiler, The godless one.   
   aa #2279   
   Gods are all tailored to order. They are made   
   to exactly fit the prejudices of the believer.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)