Religion
In reply to the discussion: Was Jesus even born? [View all]M.G.
(250 posts)Last edited Fri Nov 8, 2013, 11:47 PM - Edit history (4)
You wrote "I find it totally improbable that any form of religion could have such a beginning and be anything remotely true and credible." I assumed your point was that Buddhism is untrue because its narratives are historically unreliable and attempted to answer that. Perhaps I misunderstood your point. However, if you're fine with my take on Buddhism we can drop the topic.
In terms of Christianity, historical proofs are not like logical proofs; as long as there's an iota of a chance that a religious narrative is at least possibly true believers will believe what they like. Heck, even if Christianity's narratives were clearly and unambiguously falsifiable, I'm not sure how much difference that would make; Mormonism's historical truth claims are as falsifiable as any such claims could be and that religion still retains large numbers of educated believers. At this point, it's Christianity's narratives which hold power, not the history; I personally know one Christian who flat-out told me that even if his faith was repackaged Mithraism it would still be a valid path to divinity in his mind.