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Originally Posted by kretara
Not to start a flame war or anything, but one can say (and to a large extent prove) that the bible is "made up stuff".
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Actually no, unless you subscribe to the Barbara Thering (aka "tin foil hat") school of early christian history. It's very clear that a great deal of what is mentioned throughout the old and new testaments is in fact rather historically accurate. The kind of things which are open to question are the various "miracles" imputed to various people, and you can also seriously question the bias/selectivity of those editing the bible (like making Magdalene a prostitute with a very small role — which is certainly not the case in some of the "unapproved" gospels). Not to mention the fact that the major approved gospels were written substantially after the fact. But one simply cannot say that there isn't a lot of truth in there.
The above statement is the kind of thing which makes me embarrassed to be an atheist.
