[lbo-talk] Jesus didn't exist....

[Jon Johanning]

Well, two things we're sure of are that God doesn't (and didn't) exist, 
and a whole bunch of people about 2000 years ago who thought that God 
did exist, Jesus did exist, and the latter was the son of the former 
(while simultaneously also *being* the former -- I've never managed to 
get my head around that one) took over the Roman Empire. Hence the 
widespread belief in the aforementioned propositions, and a lot of 
others, which persists to this day, known as "Christianity."

Of course, Christianity is based on a whole raft of mistaken beliefs, 
but it has been conclusively proven by a very large number of trials 
that simply pointing out these mistakes does nothing to shake the 
beliefs of the believers.

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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When I was a little boy, I had but a little wit,
'Tis a long time ago, and I have no more yet;
Nor ever ever shall, until that I die,
For the longer I live the more fool am I.
-- Wit and Mirth, an Antidote against Melancholy (1684)