Happy Easter

[Rosario19]

Happy Easter to all, to all C and C++ programmers

[Mr Flibble]

On 21/04/2019 10:51, Rosario19 wrote:
> Happy Easter to all, to all C and C++ programmers

By "Easter" I hope you were refering to the pagan spring festival rather
than the Christian theft of that festival because Jesus Christ never
actually existed.

/Flibble

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"I'd say, bone cancer in children? What's that about?" Fry replied.
"How dare you? How dare you create a world to which there is such misery
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"Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates
a world that is so full of injustice and pain. That's what I would say."

[rick.c...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 12:34:46 PM UTC-4, Mr Flibble wrote:
> On 21/04/2019 10:51, Rosario19 wrote:
> > Happy Easter to all, to all C and C++ programmers
>
> By "Easter" I hope you were refering to the pagan spring festival rather
> than the Christian theft of that festival because Jesus Christ never
> actually existed.

Secular sources citing his existence:

https://answersingenesis.org/jesus-christ/incarnation/jesus-did-not-exist/

Josephus (AD 37–c.100, Jewish military leader and historian):
Wrote about Jesus on two occasions. The authenticity of one
occurrence, known as the Testimonium Flavianum, is hotly
disputed, but his account of the execution of James is
generally accepted, and he mentioned James, “the brother
of Jesus who was called the Christ.”

Tacitus (AD 56–120, great Roman historian): Reported that
after rumors spread about Nero burning Rome, Nero needed
scapegoats for the crime and chose “Christians, [who were]
hated for their abominable crimes. Their name comes from
Christ, who, during the reign of Tiberius, had been executed
by the procurator Pontius Pilate.”

Pliny the Younger (AD 61–c.112, Roman senator): Wrote to
Emperor Trajan about his experience with Christians.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Mr Flibble]

You are going to have to try harder than that little man. Those well
trodden, so called "sources" are not contemperous to Jesus's supposed
lifetime and are little more than hearsay (i.e. wouldn't meet the
evidentuary standard required by any court of law). There is absolutely
no evidence contemporary to Jesus of his existence, none. Nope, Jesus
Christ never existed.

And Satan invented fossils, yes?

[rick.c...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 1:39:13 PM UTC-4, Mr Flibble wrote:
> On 25/04/2019 18:23, rick.c...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Secular sources citing his existence:
> >
> > https://answersingenesis.org/jesus-christ/incarnation/jesus-did-not-exist/
> >
> > Josephus (AD 37–c.100, Jewish military leader and historian):
> > Wrote about Jesus on two occasions. The authenticity of one
> > occurrence, known as the Testimonium Flavianum, is hotly
> > disputed, but his account of the execution of James is
> > generally accepted, and he mentioned James, “the brother
> > of Jesus who was called the Christ.”
> >
> > Tacitus (AD 56–120, great Roman historian): Reported that
> > after rumors spread about Nero burning Rome, Nero needed
> > scapegoats for the crime and chose “Christians, [who were]
> > hated for their abominable crimes. Their name comes from
> > Christ, who, during the reign of Tiberius, had been executed
> > by the procurator Pontius Pilate.”
> >
> > Pliny the Younger (AD 61–c.112, Roman senator): Wrote to
> > Emperor Trajan about his experience with Christians.
>
> You are going to have to try harder than that little man. Those well
> trodden, so called "sources" are not contemperous to Jesus's supposed
> lifetime and are little more than hearsay (i.e. wouldn't meet the
> evidentuary standard required by any court of law). There is absolutely
> no evidence contemporary to Jesus of his existence, none. Nope, Jesus
> Christ never existed.

A Roman historian cites Jesus being executed under Pontius Pilate
under the reign of Tiberius. He describes treatment of the Christ-
ians in detail as the years went on and the damage was done. It is
a reference to the treatment of Christians in the early church, as
well as a reference to Jesus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on_Christ

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Annals_(Tacitus)/Book_15#44

Such indeed were the precautions of human wisdom. The next thing
was to seek means of propitiating the gods, and recourse was had
to the Sibylline books, by the direction of which prayers were
offered to Vulcanus, Ceres, and Proserpina. Juno, too, was
entreated by the matrons, first, in the Capitol, then on the
nearest part of the coast, whence water was procured to sprinkle
the fane and image of the goddess. And there were sacred banquets
and nightly vigils celebrated by married women. But all human
efforts, all the lavish gifts of the emperor, and the propitiations
of the gods, did not banish the sinister belief that the
conflagration was the result of an order.

Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt
and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for
==> their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus,
==> from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty
==> during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators,
==> Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked
for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first
source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous
and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and
become popular.

Accordingly, an arrest was first made of all who pleaded guilty;
then, upon their information, an immense multitude was convicted,
==> not so much of the crime of firing the city, as of hatred against
==> mankind. Mockery of every sort was added to their deaths. Covered
==> with the skins of beasts, they were torn by dogs and perished, or
==> were nailed to crosses, or were doomed to the flames and burnt,
==> to serve as a nightly illumination, when daylight had expired.

Nero offered his gardens for the spectacle, and was exhibiting a
show in the circus, while he mingled with the people in the dress
of a charioteer or stood aloft on a car. Hence, even for criminals
who deserved extreme and exemplary punishment, there arose a feeling
of compassion; for it was not, as it seemed, for the public good,
but to glut one man's cruelty, that they were being destroyed.

So, you reject someone recording history for the Romans, but you
accept what scientists living today tell you happened 65 million
years ago with the dinosaurs?

Have you considered the evidence that the fossil layers we find
were laid down in a global flood? I mean, they find fish up in
the highest mountains world-wide. How'd they get there?

There is global evidence of a flood. There is evidence that rock
layers can form very quickly following Mt. St. Helens' eruption
in 1980 in the USA. We see the same kinds of trees going through
rock layers we see elsewhere in the world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1vFqDKqNAY

It shows dinosaurs being referenced in cultures all over the world.
How would they know of these dinosaurs if they were all extinct
for millions of years?

There is evidence everywhere for a young Earth, and for the Biblical
timeline

> And Satan invented fossils, yes?

He invented the belief you bite down on hook, line, and sinker and
believe.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Mr Flibble]

You wrote a lot in reply but I don't need to read it to know you aren't
writing anything new. No historical exidence. Nope. Jesus Christ never
existed. Your god doesn't exist.

And Satan invented fossils, yes?