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@Christophany Robert Price and Richard Carrier have helpful things on the Christ Myth Theory. You criticize the ruling out of the supernatural. What about when far more reliable sources like Thucydides and Philo claim that various historical figures are descended from gods? We happily rule out...

Non scriptural accounts of Jesus are very limited and show only that some people believed in the existence of a man named Jesus. Hardly an earthshaking revelation. More evidence for Aristotle than Jesus. Are you unaware that Muslims kill themselves fighting the infidels? Why? To get imagined...

@JohnPaul You keep repeating the same things. "What evidence shows she didn't kill her daughter?" "She was convicted by a judge and jury." As I have said, innocent until proven guilty, and you have failed to present a scrap of proof or evidence. Again, courts often make mistake s, I cited the...

I don't believe the resurrection was a real event. I seriously doubt the person Jesus ever existed.

@JohnPaul As we sit in our air-conditioned, comfy houses discussing this on our fancy computers or smartphones, this woman's life has been ruined by a corrupt justice system and is now about to end in just a couple of days. And all you do is insist, bizarrely, that no one can be on death row...

"Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." Her forced confession was used against her. But it is no good evidence. Proof to prove otherwise? Again, innocent until proven guilty. You don't prove your innocence. Rather, the court proves your guilt.

What is your point? That everyone on death row necessarily is there justly? Because that's false and naive. Good, just pointing it out because the majority of people do not.

There is no proof. Innocent until proven guilty, right? She has not been proven guilty. Her confession was forced out of her. The police regularly do that, which is why you should never speak to them. (On this I recommend the book You Have the Right to Remain Innocent.) You say by evidence. What...

I don't accept the traditional authorships. That was the point of the thread.

Melissa Lucio, a woman with no prior record and no history of violence, is scheduled to be executed by the state of Texas for a murder that never happened. Her daughter died from injuries sustained after a fall down a flight of stairs while the family was moving furniture. Before the girl's body...

Only "evidence" for the idea is from early church testimony. No other evidence, nothing textual certainly. It is a fringe opinion among scholars. Translations tend to bear certain nuances and strange signs that original works do not exhibit. Irenaeus wrote long after, and he probably just is...

Just depends on what's meant by valid. It calls itself a religion. LaVeyan Satanism (Church of Satan, Satanic Temple) is atheistic though, so atypical for religion obviously.

Seems a little condescending, if I may say so.

The testimony of multiple people is enough for many claims but not enough for others. If all my sisters (I have five) tell me they saw a pink dragon in the backyard, well, I'm obviously not going to believe it just because multiple people claimed it. The resurrection is too unbelievable to...

I have done the same. Talked to God regularly back when I was a Christian and during my period of deconversion. I never felt or heard anything. When I was a Christian, I just thought I was not strong enough in the faith and had to read and meditate on the Bible more to be able to interact with...

Let me tell you a true story that happened to me, showing how Christians can be... extremely rude. Recently at work, a job where I deliver groceries to customers' cars, I was about to load a woman's trunk when she says, "Are you a Christian?" The question threw me for a loop, being a bizarre...

It is not that fascinating, most critical scholars believe he made them up. But here is the difference: guards at a tomb is an unremarkable claim, thus it does not require much evidence, we still don't have enough though. Resurrection? That's an amazingly unbelievable claim and so requires much...

Haha, thanks. Yeah a lot of atheists are rude. But I try not to be that way.

More likely, Jesus' body was stolen (only Matthew says there were guards, so we can't trust it), but we can't know what then came of it. Bart Ehrman proposes that soldiers found and attacked the people who took the body, then dumped the bodies in the river. It's also been proposed that...

Right, which is why Sam Harris, an atheist, argues that the term "atheist" should not even exist. Right now it is important because belief in God is so common. But if it does eventually become less common, the term atheist will also become less important. Atheists have other terms to identify...