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The irony is that the claims in the image above themselves circulate and circulate in the manner of the telephone game, among atheists and other self-proclaimed \u201cskeptics\u201d who are nothing of the sort, as they clearly fail to fact-check memes that come their way.\u00a0Almost everything that is claimed\u00a0in the image is wrong, or at least uncertain and open to dispute. Which kings had things removed? Which major mainstream translation today is a translation of an earlier translation? Paul didn\u2019t write 30 years after the events in Jesus\u2019 life, and if any New Testament source was written 90 years after the fact, it certainly didn\u2019t do so in the absence of written sources, as should be self-evident.<\/p>\n
Atheists, please consider this: The fact that Christians are sometimes wrong, and cling stubbornly to beliefs even when they are wrong, cannot be considered decisive proof that Christianity is wrong about\u00a0everything<\/em>. If it could, then the atheist penchant to do exactly the same thing<\/em> would be proof that atheists are wrong about everything, too, wouldn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A friend shared this meme, together with the comment, \u201cShowing that whatever else atheists are, they are not students of history and historical criticism.\u201d The irony is that the claims in the image above themselves circulate and circulate in the manner of the telephone game, among atheists and other self-proclaimed \u201cskeptics\u201d who are nothing of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":33027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,5],"tags":[872,1140,2189,2190,3312,6963,7250,7252,8451,11381,12339],"class_list":["post-33026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atheism-religion","category-bible","tag-atheists","tag-bible","tag-copied","tag-copies","tag-fact-checking","tag-manuscripts","tag-meme","tag-memes","tag-oral-tradition","tag-skeptics","tag-telephone"],"yoast_head":"\n