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> It's not too hard when you hear ridiculous stories and treat them as if they were to happen today. Maybe it hinges on which parts of the stories you imaginin
by CoastalCoder 3y ago
> It's not too hard when you hear ridiculous stories and treat them as if they were to happen today.
Maybe it hinges on which parts of the stories you imagining happening today.
E.g., if Jesus rose from the dead next week, I'd find it pretty thought-provoking. If he were merely crucified but stayed dead, I'd cross Christianity of my list of plausible world views.
I.e., a lot really depends on whether or not those miraculous events actually happened.
- anon7725 3y ago> if Jesus rose from the dead next week, I'd find it pretty thought-provoking. If he were merely crucified but stayed dead, I'd cross Christianity of my list of plausible world views. In today’s environment, how would you evaluate the truth value of a claim like that? It seems like the only way to 100% convinced of the truth would be as a first-hand witness, unless there was some kind of detailed and airtight evaluation. Maybe the foundation document for the next world religion will be a 100-page paper that definitely establishes causality.
- CoastalCoder 3y agoYeah, good point. We're definitely in an age of super-powered disinformation.