Thursday, 10 October 2013

Critical savvy

Discussion on ST’s wall:

PRWeb UK
8 October 2013
Biblical scholars will be appearing at the ‘Covert Messiah’ Conference at Conway Hall in London on the 19th of October to present this controversial discovery to the British public.

While people commented on how silly the article is, a New Atheist friend said that such reinterpretation of old data is no different from what other religions and denominations do.

WH: Nevertheless, some interpretations remain better than others. Don't pay retail for two-bit (25 cents) conspiracy theories when they're actually a dime (10 cents) a dozen :p. Atwill's claim depicted on PRWeb (not actually a real news site but rather a press release service) is not only 8 years old, but far from the only supposed "discovery" that Christianity is fake.

The New Atheist friend repeated the aphorism that because humanity has been wrong about many other gods, it is no big deal to go one step further in disbelieving Christianity.

WH: That there are multiple secular theories on the origin of the universe, for example, does not translate into an argument that they must all be wrong.

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