{"id":32789,"date":"2015-12-22T09:24:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T14:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=32789"},"modified":"2015-12-22T09:24:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T14:24:38","slug":"fictions-and-facts-about-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/12\/fictions-and-facts-about-jesus.html","title":{"rendered":"Fictions and Facts about Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Dale Tuggy<\/a> shared this image on his blog, along with some thoughts on it:<\/p>\n

\"wpid-Photo-20151221222434976.jpg\"Tuggy\u2019s comment on it is worth sharing:<\/p>\n

This argument kills with 8th-graders. But any adults should be unimpressed. I\u2019ll wager that any adult can think of many written reports that are important evidence for all kinds of claims!<\/p>\n

Dear would-be Jesus de-bunker: kindly reflect on this fact. 0% of historians believe Batman is a real guy. And rounding up (to account for a very, very few kooks) 100% of historians believe that Jesus was a real Jewish man. Now, why is this?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click through<\/a> to read the rest. He doesn\u2019t do mainstream scholarship any favors by appealing to Michael Kruger, of course. See also Stephen Bedard\u2019s<\/a> comparison of Jesus mythicists and young-earth creationists.<\/p>\n

Other than Ken Ham and fundamentalists like him, I know of no one who thinks \u201cI have this book\u201d proves anything. And other than mythicists, I know of no one who thinks that showing that such claims are ridiculous says anything about what we should<\/em> think regarding scientific, historical, or other matters. And so the above meme\u00a0provides further evidence that mythicists and young-earth creationists are mirror images of one another, equally ridiculous despite their different ideologies, because they\u00a0approach their diametrically opposed ideologies in strikingly similar ways<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Dale Tuggy shared this image on his blog, along with some thoughts on it: Tuggy\u2019s comment on it is worth sharing: This argument kills with 8th-graders. But any adults should be unimpressed. I\u2019ll wager that any adult can think of many written reports that are important evidence for all kinds of claims! 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