| drkohler said: Whether Jesus actually existed at all is open to debate. A luxury we actually have in the Christian world. Try that with Mohammed and the Quran in the Islamic world..... |
A luxury we have in the western world. It has nothing to do with Christianity; when Christianity had power in the west the same way Islam currently has in the middle east, Christianity was just as intolerant of such "debate." We have achieved the luxurious position of being able to debate such things, in large part, via secularization.
As to whether Jesus actually existed, I don't see how it really matters. Let's say that he did (and it's not hard to imagine such an itinerant preacher at that time, crucified by the Romans, etc.). So what then? It doesn't make his supposed resurrection or miracles any more likely; it doesn't make Christian morality any more palatable; it doesn't make the doctrine of the Trinity any more comprehensible; and so on.
There are a thousand good reasons not to be Christian, whether or not Christ himself ever existed.
