> On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, John Berry wrote:
>
> > The reason that these things are said is because there is considered to be
> > evidence and many people believe that they were real.
> > That you can't just be closed minded just because it happened a long time ago
> > there for it must be just tall tales.
>
> Yes, and as I summed up in my later post -- I was referring to IDLE
> speculation. What people speak of here is usually backed up by at least
> *SOME* kind of facts... what I was pissed about was that some people were
> simply offering their opinions about 'what could have caused X event'.
> Idle speculation, in that fashion, is not helpful.
>
> > Further more there is a LOT of evidence for the bible being totally correct.
> > And a LOT of stories about atlantis in many different cultures that can't be
> > explained by somebody getting a map wrong.
>
> Jesus did not exist. Yeshua existed -- he rebelled against the Saudecees.
> He made sense. Jesus does not. Jesus was an invention of Saul - or Paul -
> or whatever the hell he wants to go by. In fact, most of the New Testament
> was invented in Paul's little head just so he could be a bigshot. This,
> however, is topic for another list.
That is your view, There is plenty of evidence that you are wrong, but you are
entitled by your belief that jesus did not exist as I am to mine that he did.
John Berry