From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!tektronix!tekmdp!jonw
Newsgroups: net.religion
Title: Quote, character assassination, and historical corroboration
Article-I.D.: tekmdp.1904
Posted: Tue Apr 19 11:42:14 1983
Received: Mon Apr 25 02:37:47 1983


Quote from tekmdp!dadla!dadla-b!hutch:

   "Thanks, Yigal, for once more presentiung (sic) us with rhetoric and flames
   that far surpass anything resembling rational intelligent discourse".

Is this the same Hutch who was trying to debunk the debunkers of the Bible's
historical accuracy a couple of weeks ago?  Hutch, I suggest that you stick
to the issues, and submit future character assassinations to net.hutch.

Concerning the lack of historical corroboration for the existence of Jesus:
In a previous submission, I mentioned that I had read that there were around
thirty people who lived in the vicinity of Jesus during his lifetime whose
writings survive today.  In all of these writings, there is no reference to 
this man, Jesus.  Since no one has presented any evidence to the contrary, for
now I will have to operate under the assumption that Jesus is a myth.

						Jon White
						Tektronix
						Aloha, Ore.