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Michelle Taylor ([personal profile] chess) wrote 2012-01-16 06:40 pm (UTC)

The 'proof' of the definite death that was presented in the sermon was more of a social proof (i.e. 'the Roman soldiers were liable to the point of death for getting the execution right, and had lots of experience at getting executions done, so they probably wouldn't have cocked it up and lefth im alive').

But yes; a lot of people are confused between different types of truth. Personally it all seems faintly irrelevant to me as I'm pretty sure that _I_ believe that historical-ness or otherwise fundamentally doesn't matter and is in the unknowable category, and there's plenty of other stuff in there that I'd pick to worry about first... but it does worry me that some people may well base their faith on that (maybe that's one reason why a lot of people do a lot of incredibly counterproductive shit in the name of my religion?).

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