Comment by ozim
1 day ago
Decades?
You know there is a story about virgin giving birth, guy coming from death after 3 days.
Not starting about dude throwing thunders or yet another one having a hammer only worthy can pick up.
There were loads of people who would swear by those stories to be true.
The involvement of Saul in the stoning of Stephen is generally seen as an established historical event - AD 34-35 - basically within a couple of years of Christ's bodily resurrection.
Many others were killed during the reign of the Roman Emperor Nero (54–68 AD), well within the lifetime of the 500+ eyewitnesses of Christ being around for 40 days after his crucifixion. They could have recanted if they knew it was false, but they knew it was true.
And there are still loads of people who swear those "stories" are true, about a billion of them for the first one actually, and billions others for other "stories". The thing is, these stories are qualitiatively different from the slop on social media and the 24 hour news cycle, now those phenomena are new(ish).
That stuff wasn't online until a few decades ago.
You do realize my comment is pointing out „online” is irrelevant. There is no qualitative difference between online or not. If something was written in a book it did not make it true.
There is also no qualitative difference between one water drop and a billion. One dropped on your head you wouldn't notice, a billion dropped on your head would drown you.
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