Jesus is Like (But Not Like) Others

@Faizal_Ali, to suggest that Christianity has no more rational basis than Scientology seems to me to be either disingenuous or ignorant. And this really just goes back to your post that kicked off this thread:

The fact is that your dismissing any scholarship that considers the Gospels to be historically reliable as “not serious” doesn’t make it so. Scholarship doesn’t become unserious simply because you disagree with it, and there are valid reasons to believe that the Gospels are sufficiently reliable to make a case for the truth of the Resurrection. (See the scholars mentioned in this thread, e.g. by @jongarvey and myself.) And in this respect, to the best of my knowledge, Christianity is unique. The basis for the claims, or even just the nature of the claims themselves, for e.g. Scientology, Mormonism, Islam, or Buddhism, simply do not compare.

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