Originally posted by tabibito
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As mentioned above, if you and your buddies believe that you had a conversation with a space alien last night, the onus is on YOU to give evidence of your claim if you expect anyone else to believe it. The onus is NOT on those of us who doubt your claim, to prove you did not have this extra-terrestial experience.
And I assert that the only evidence that you have for your extra-ordinary claim is the following:
1. Four anonymous books, written decades after the event, which describe the alleged appearances of this allegedly resurrected man, the four books containing numerous discrepancies, and two maybe three of those books borrowing heavily from the first to write their story of the event.
2. The testimony of one man who believed he had seen a talking bright light on a lonely, desert highway.
3. People who were willing to die for their belief.
4. People in an honor shame society who were willing to believe a shameful belief.
To me, this is poor evidence. There are many naturalistic explanations for each of these points. Christians are welcome to believe that this is sufficient evidence for THEM to believe, but more and more educated people are seeing this evidence as nothing more than the hysteria and superstitions of uneducated, superstitious ancient peoples, no different than the origins of many other superstitious beliefs in human history.
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