[orionblamblam]

> Why would they get killed? After all, they ( the priests) had all the power -- you forget, for a long time, it ws the christians getting killed.

And then the Christians turned it around. If there was proof that Christ was a fraud (or at least somethign that put it into doubt), what would the Church do with it?

[D Edmund Joaquin]

God turned it around. As a member of the Church to which you are alluding, all I can tell you is that I have never been discouraged from questioning anything. Put it out in the light and let's examine it, is what I was taught, for after all, the truth loves the light

[ohioWfan]

Here's something of note for you, orion.........

My Encyclopaedia Brittanica (Macropaedia, Vol. 22, p. 360, Jesus: The Christ and Christology, column 2, paragraph 5) following a listing and explanation of non-Christian sources and references for the historic Jesus, says this......

These independent accounts prove that in ancient times even the opponents of Christianity never doubted the historicity of Jesus, which was disputed for the first time and on inadequate grounds at the end of the 18th, during the 19th, and at the beginning of the 20th centuries.

Seems like even the Encyclopaedia Brittanica thinks your ability to reason is inadequate.....