Re: The Gospels

Tina writes:
<< Yeah, ok, whatever. You're a believer, I'm not. I think the facts
support me, you think the opposite. Whatever. You win, ok, I'll go take
communion and do a few hail marys and our fathers. >>

You seem to belittle his position continually with talk of his being a
"believer" or of the "devoted" or similar things, but I am neither (I
essentially introduced myself to the list several years ago with a long
argument with Jim in which I was defending atheism) and I'm not with you
over these "facts." And I insist as one who ought to be credible concerning
such matters that the majority -- in fact the vast majority -- of even
secular scholars are not with Freke and Gandy, and while they're not quite
with Jim either, very few ascribe to the extreme line you've been taking.

And in another post, a day or so ago, Tina wrote:
<<[. . .][W]hen I lost my faith, I remembered this film [with Ephram
Zimbalist Jr ] and how it moved me, so I decided to follow in his steps and
find the faith as he had. I was looking, as the song goes, for "something
to believe in". [. . .] As I tried, year after year to refute attacks
against Christianity, I found it to be an argument of faith vs facts. No
one could have been more disappointed than I. >>

As I wrote before, this is in contrast to how you represented yourself not
very long ago, when you said (on the 25th of July, as a quick search of my
emails determined):

"[. . .] let me say that I have been speaking from an EXTREME prejudice I
have regarding Christian mythology and
the politics that formed it. I began research over a decade ago out of
anger towards Christianity and now continue out of curiosity."

-robbie

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Received on Thu Aug 7 21:31:54 2003