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Your prophecies are nonsense, on many levels. As is the large part of your "historical evidence". Many intelligent and learned Christians agree with me, so I have no interest discussing it. Perhaps someone else can explain it to you.

As for the rest of it, they are reasonable questions. But it's not my job to teach you history or psychology. If you answer my post:

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txag,

have you ever heard of the Sai Baba? Because his existence and following, even in this modern age, proves how easily these fables can arise and gain a following, without widespread conspiracy.


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then I'll answer yours. Explain to me how a known fraud can get ten million committed followers in this scientific age, without a " MASSIVE amount of 'cooperation' over decades. An amount FAR IN EXCESS of any other fudging of data known to man."

Can you see the parallels between this and the Jesus story? Can you see a how a myth gets replicated, and gains fervent believers? If not, do you realize this happened in every ancient civilization on Earth, and that some of these religions (for example, Islam, which you shun, and Hinduism, which you shun) also have hundreds of millions or billions of followers, and holy books, and fulfilled prophecies, and martyrs. Don't you see that those SAME arguments you use, if logically valid, can be equally used to undermine Christianity?

It's a big world out there. Open your eyes, and get back to me when you have.