Anyway, may I politely and unjudgmentally suggest that you would do well to inform yourself better about a subject or a text before you knock it in casual dismissiveness?

In the 20 years-odd since I studied Phenomenology of Religion I've seen little to suggest that the "scholars" have managed to find the original texts. I must admit an interest in the contents of the Dead Sea scrolls, but the gospels? You would only convince me of their authenticity and accuracy if you presented them to me with the ink still wet and the wretch who wrote them attached!

I'm not saying that some - or even most - of the events didn't happen in some form or other. I just don't believe that the characters named were ever extant in the forms described. Or even that the ascribed authors were, in fact, the actual authors.

Scholarship has its limits. Beyond that it's a matter of belief.




The idiot also known as Capfka ...