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Christian Topic / Re: Lewis's Trilemma - split from Matthew topic
« Last post by Dicky Underpants on Today at 04:42:54 PM »Hang on, Gordon. A claim is not a question.
The question "Was there a resurrection?" is not invalid as far as I can see and indeed it has been the bread and butter of atheist historians like Bart Ehrman and Richard Carrier for years.
You had me going for a bit but of course, your comment didn't stand up to closer inspection.
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Bart D. Ehrman concurs, highlighting the insurmountable challenge in demonstrating miracles historically: "Even if miracles are possible, there is no way for the historian who sticks strictly to the canons of historical evidence to show that they have ever happened."(from Ehrman's website https://www.bartehrman.com/jesus-resurrection/ )
Not quite sure how you'd support your comment that the question "Was there a resurrection?" has been Ehrman's bread and butter. As far as I can see, his thought has developed fairly logically from his follow-up on Schweitzer's thesis "Jesus - apocalyptic prophet of the new millennium" (Jesus as a mistaken prophet), through sifting out the possibilities of textual corruption in "Misquoting Jesus" and on to "How Jesus became God" - in other words, how people interpreted what they thought about the figure of Jesus and magnified this image into an ever more grandiose Christology.
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Politics & Current Affairs / Re: Trans rights: a perspective
« Last post by Nearly Sane on Today at 04:15:17 PM »Suzanne Moore
If the BBC wants our trust, it needs to stop calling obviously male criminals 'women'
https://archive.vn/A2DnY
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Politics & Current Affairs / Re: President Trump
« Last post by Nearly Sane on Today at 03:58:57 PM »Trump dealing with the important stuff
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/08/27/is-cracker-barrel-reverting-to-its-old-logo-heres-what-happened/85848201007/
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/08/27/is-cracker-barrel-reverting-to-its-old-logo-heres-what-happened/85848201007/
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Politics & Current Affairs / Starmer to replace third top aide in less than a year
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Sports, Hobbies & Interests / Re: Football 2025 - 2026
« Last post by Aruntraveller on Today at 03:00:59 PM »Even with some truly dreadful results in Europe for Scottish teams this week, Man Utd may have managed the worst result.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cy08zywdlx5o
For various reasons, we have a soft spot for Grimsby and found the result most gratifying. That it was Man Utd they beat made it even more pleasurable.
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Sports, Hobbies & Interests / Re: Football 2025 - 2026
« Last post by Nearly Sane on Today at 01:49:04 PM »Even with some truly dreadful results in Europe for Scottish teams this week, Man Utd may have managed the worst result.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cy08zywdlx5o
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cy08zywdlx5o
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Politics & Current Affairs / Re: Reform runs away from Free Speech
« Last post by Aruntraveller on Today at 01:27:04 PM »
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Politics & Current Affairs / Re: Villain of history who was not a villain
« Last post by Nearly Sane on Today at 12:52:05 PM »This is everywhere on the social media.Are they all saying Hitler?
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Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment / Re: What are you watching?
« Last post by Nearly Sane on Today at 12:51:32 PM »Halfway through this on Netflix. Really enjoying it, very different pacing from most things.Finished it. Really liked it. Slow, thorough, haunting. Hints of Twin Peaks, Donna Tartt's The Secret History, Harry Mulisch's The Discovery of Heaven. It felt as if it were a European production that had subtitles at times.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_About_the_Harry_Quebert_Affair_(miniseries)