Re: No logic.. only Foolishness.
Keith Plummer (keithp@starnetinc.com)
Thu, 05 Jun 1997 06:58:32 -0500Pim van Meurs wrote:
>
> "This is an excellent point, and applies with greatest force to the rise
> of
> Christianity itself. It strains credulity to the breaking point to think
> that
> Christ's followers would go to death for him if he had not risen from the
> dead. Perhaps one could have lost it and gone to his death for a lie; but
> all
> of them? Hardly."
>
> That is hardly a convincing argument since the same could be used to show
> that the Hindus are correct or the Islam or .... After all why else would
> people risk death in the name of their religion if their religion was not
> the 'only and true one" ? There are plenty of examples of people willing
> to follow their leaders into death for their ideas, does this show that
> there is any truthfulness to the claims of their leaders ? Is there a UFO
> circling Hale Bopp ?
I could be mistaken but I think the point being made was that it is
highly improbable that people would risk theri lives for what they KNEW
to be a lie.
Keith P.