Thats ok guys, i am a humanist/atheist ......i am going to your hell as there is no room for me in your heaven....
I am interested in the here and now, not in the here and life ever after.
Was it your St.Thomas Aquinas who said "Those in heaven will be perfectly placed to view the suffering and torture of the souls burning in hell.
Remember it is your cult that preaches 'love and tolerance' but threatens us with separation in your "after life".
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Evidence_for_the_historical_existence_of_Jesus_Christ#cite_note-71
Gospels as history
As a primary historical record, the Christian gospels are dubious at best. For one, the gospels themselves are admittedly propagandist: "And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book: but these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have through his name." (John 20:30-31) The writers peppered the gospels with Old Testament references — most details of Jesus' life are Old Testament references.[25]
What is more problematic is that the gospels contain many events that contradict the historical record:[25]
Luke 2:1-4 claims Jesus was born in the year of a universal tax census, but the first such census did not occur until 74 CE (and it is not in the other gospels).
Herod's Slaughter of the Innocents (Matthew 2:16-18) is not recorded in any other history — even Josephus, who really didn't like Herod and meticulously catalogued his other misdeeds.
Jesus is depicted as hugely popular in the gospels. Yet he is unrecorded by non-Biblical historians.
None of the miracles described biblically, such as the dead saints rising from graves and visiting Jerusalem or a three hour long eclipse following Jesus' death, are picked up on by contemporary writers such as Pliny or Philo. One would reasonably expect that such events would be noticed.
Many of the stories in the gospels do not make any sense historically, such as the trial and crucifixion on Passover.[34]
As with most religious texts, scholars assume some basic level of reliability on topics like "Who were the players?", "What were the major events?" and "What was the attitude of the community the texts intend to represent?"[35]
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