Comments on: Hitchens / McGrath – Religion: The Center vs The Fringe, Pt 3

By: NotTooObvious

NotTooObvious — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:58:45 +0000

mcgrath is a nutjob!

By: NotTooObvious

NotTooObvious — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:09:23 +0000

@johnycannuk u speak truth

By: Durano77

Durano77 — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:37:36 +0000

Excellent video.
Watch also the debate between a Slovenian new atheist (Szabo) and a Swedish Lutheran theologian (Gustavsson) @ =_2SkxwvtRvE …

By: SevenRiderAirForce

SevenRiderAirForce — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:07:40 +0000

That’s a new one…lol it’s very subtle, that pope joke.

By: MrZebraZombie

MrZebraZombie — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:42:18 +0000

I was an atheist,, now I worship Dawkins & Hitchens. I call him Hawkins.

By: FoolieFishing

FoolieFishing — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:01:18 +0000

It is ironic that Christopher Hitchens as a Britt is dismissing the one thing in Christianity that inspired Ghandi (Through Tolstoy) in his non violent resistand to the Brittish opression.

By: FoolieFishing

FoolieFishing — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:52:01 +0000

@johnycannuk The majority historians does not question the existence of Jesus. Details of his life, however, can be debated.

By: johnycannuk

johnycannuk — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:07:47 +0000

@FoolieFishing Well clearly I have a much higher standard of evidence than most than. It does not matter if the majority of historians accept the existence of Jesus. Most do it out of cultural bias and assumption. If there really was a historical Jesus alive at the time in question, then show the evidence. Otherwise, given the similarities to other myths, I will assume he was a myth.

Big enough to inspire the NT, surely the Romans or Jews would have written something. Or Philo would”ve noticed

By: FoolieFishing

FoolieFishing — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:35:59 +0000

@johnycannuk Well you are entitled to your opinion. But just because the fact that there aren’t any real proof, it isn’t reason enough to assume that there is no historical person behind the sect. Your talk about bias reminds me of conspiracy theorists; don’t you have a bias? . It makes me wonder: have you actually studied the issue formally or do you base your thinking on Zeitgeist or some similar pseudo-science? (continiued)

By: FoolieFishing

FoolieFishing — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:37:34 +0000

@johnycannuk (continiued) The concerning the alleged similarities to other myths: Those similarities have been heavily exagerated. Besides It doesn’t really matter, since we are not discussing if the early christian doctrines concerning Jesus are true or myths, just if he was an actual person. Philo died before christianity became more than a marginal sect. I am no expert but I have studied religion on a university level for two years, and history for one semester.