and yet there’s concrete evidence for so many historical figures that predate this character; you can find engravings of profiles on coins, statues, the list is long for folks like pliny, archimedes, anthony and fucking cleopatra etc., but you’re asserting that there’s some guy running around performing MIRACLES - and we have to accept ‘well it would be foolish to declare this guy couldn’t exist’ without evidence.
ooh but scholars - yeah, well, scholars were sure dinosaurs were giant lumbering lizards, and we now know there were feathers, evidence of warm blood and coordinated hunts. evidence for a literal christ is all circumstantial / apocrypha / dogma.
sorry, I don’t think skepticism is in any way foolish, in fact, I think your adherence to the 2000 year old hearsay is foolish.
and yet there’s concrete evidence for so many historical figures that predate this character; you can find engravings of profiles on coins, statues, the list is long for folks like pliny, archimedes, anthony and fucking cleopatra etc., but you’re asserting that there’s some guy running around performing MIRACLES - and we have to accept ‘well it would be foolish to declare this guy couldn’t exist’ without evidence.
furthermore, exceptional claims require exceptional evidence.
ooh but scholars - yeah, well, scholars were sure dinosaurs were giant lumbering lizards, and we now know there were feathers, evidence of warm blood and coordinated hunts. evidence for a literal christ is all circumstantial / apocrypha / dogma.
sorry, I don’t think skepticism is in any way foolish, in fact, I think your adherence to the 2000 year old hearsay is foolish.