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To: Gamecock; Sherman Logan
There's another difference.

The resurrection is a proposition of fact. It's either true or false.

Marxism is a theory. It's a conjecture that the world would be much better if X, Y, and Z; and that thus-and-such explains history, and so on.

True believers in theories die for those theories all the time. They don't die knowing those theories are false; they believe them to be true.

However, if the resurrection is a falsehood and the apostles knew it (and were not deceived), they died for something they knew to be a lie. Sane men don't do that. So either they were all very skillfully deceived, or they were insane, or they were telling the truth and the resurrection is a fact.

31 posted on 11/11/2009 3:01:59 PM PST by Campion ("President Barack Obama" is an anagram for "An Arab-backed Imposter")
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To: Campion

Good point.


38 posted on 11/11/2009 10:39:29 PM PST by Gamecock (A tulip, the most beautiful flower in God's garden.)
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