Posted by:
Loud Laffter
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Date: February 21, 2015 09:38AM
Tim Callahan, religion editor at the popular freethinking magazine "Skeptic" (www.skeptic.com), engaged Gary Habermas, the scholar who surveyed all the academic literature he could find that addressed the question of Jesus' resurrection. Callahan wrote a book ("Secret Origins of the Bible") where he promotes the old skeptic theory that Jesus' Resurrection was nothing but a myth recycled from other myths of "dying- rising" pagan gods like Osiris, Horus, Adonis, or Dionysus.
He claims that "the evidence for it (ie, the Resurrection of Jesus) is lacking".
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PbExDzozUxUSo Habermas throws the question at him, "Tim, If you're going to hold to a 'dying-rising god' before Jesus, then where's the evidence?"
As a skeptic who just said the Resurrection evidence was lacking, Tim would, as expected, drop tons of evidence from his book.
As religion editor of a popular magazine, he'd as expected drop a name or two of atheist/agnostic scholars specializing in this field, say Bart Ehrman or Babara Thiering, quote their work, and thus offer a reasonable defense for his pet theory.
Too bad, that isn't what happened.
What he gives is nothing but the lamest atheist superstition ever... The kind atheists in this forum recite to each other like a Mormon testimony.
After that discussion, back in skeptic.com, Tim did muster the energy to refer his readers to a book that debunks the Resurrection, "The Golden Bough" a book first published in 1890. That's the most recent scholarship a skeptic like him can ever find. A book from the previous century.
Mormons do better, they have abandoned almost everything from that century.