XPost: alt.atheism   
      
   On Sat, 30 May 2015 20:47:43 +0000 (UTC), Smil wrote:   
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   >On Fri, 29 May 2015 20:45:05 -0400, mur wrote:   
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   >> On Sat, 23 May 2015 08:18:46 -0500, Mitchell Holman    
   >> wrote:   
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   >>>       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?   
      
       So you like to believe there was no communication between towns and people   
   never went from one town to another in those days?   
      
   >And, like you, why would they question what their priest or parents taught   
   >them   
      
       The first people wouldn't have a priest or their parents TO teach them.   
   They   
   would have criminals telling things that would seem like lies they could be   
   killed for telling to anyone who heard them IF the criminals were the only   
   source. Their priests and parents would be telling them the criminals were   
   lying.   
      
   >and why would they accept the word of non-believers?   
      
       It would depend on what the "word"s were, what evidence they had for them,   
   and how they compared with evidence for what the criminals were telling them.   
   But since you can't imagine that there was any communication or travel at all   
   between towns back then, how can you imagine that there were any arguments for   
   or against the idea Jesus existed and did things back then?   
      
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