From: duckman@gfy.slf   
      
   Reaper G wrote:   
      
      
   >>The Romans were almost as fanatical about keeping records as the lunatic   
   >>Nazis were some 2000 years later, yet nowhere is Jesus mentioned in any of   
   >>the contemporary Roman texts.   
   >>I'm all ears.   
   >   
   >   
   > Do the hundred gospels not included in the Bible count?   
      
   For what? "Gospels" that were so important they weren't even included in the   
   Bible when the powers that be decided what was going in and what wasn't?   
   "Gospels" that cannot be dated to the first century? "Gospels" that contain   
   such bizarre references to Jesus as a snake-god? Those gospels?   
      
   > A hundred accounts of Jesus's life within striking distance of His   
   > life vs. historical revisionism by God haters with chips on their   
   > shoulders. Who should I have an easier time believing?   
      
   What hundred accounts? Stuff written post-facto based on myths, just like in   
   any other religion. Even the New Testament gospels have so widely different   
   versions of the last days of Jesus, that it is impossible to reconcile them   
   all and come up with a narrative that is not contradictory to all of them.   
      
   Btw, I don't hate any gods any more that you hate Zeus, Mitra, Odin or Shiva.   
      
   > BTW, I couldn't help but notice your absence when SP lampooned Richard   
   > Dawkins.   
      
   What's that got to do with anything?   
      
      
   --   
   Come down off the cross   
   We can use the wood   
      
   Tom Waits, Come On Up To The House   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)