Re:A defense of Christianity helped unlock the secrets of th...
by bloaf on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @12:19PM
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Just be careful appealing to the imprecise, several century long corpus of work on the subject. By appealing to the works of the devout, people are apt to raise the equally hasty generalization described by Upton Sinclair:
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Regarding the final paragraph and implicit assumptions regarding the veracity of the content of the four canonical gospel accounts, I am not sure attributing it to "simple" assumption (i.e., the colloquial assumption where one just thinks something is true without examination) is reasonable given the education of both men and the body of work done over several centuries on examining epistemologically and historically the veracity of the gospels. See for example the intense work of John Henry Newman, 19th century Oxford scholar and intense defender of the historical reliability of the canonical gospel narratives.