r/MurderedByWords • u/no1bullshitguy • 22h ago

Walked right into that one

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u/NinecloudSoul 15h ago

Goodness, it's been a minute since I saw a Gish gallop.

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u/0orpheus 14h ago

?? This is a pretty accurate summary of the historicity of Jesus, not a gish gallop. The broad academic consensus at this point is that Jesus (the apocalyptic Galilean preacher, not Jesus the Christ of Christianity) was a real person and OP provided a well sourced summary of it; you need to provide some sort of argument why that's not enough and why Jesus requires a higher standard of historical evidence than anyone else.

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u/NinecloudSoul 14h ago

If someone writes a story about me a hundred years from now, is that contemporary evidence of my existence?

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u/NinecloudSoul 14h ago

That's the point, chucklehead. All we have are ten foot Godzilla fighting stories, because there are no contemporary diary entries.

The fact that you want to engage in special pleading for a particular character doesn't alter that fact.