<!--QuoteBegin-dhu+Oct 8 2007, 12:26 PM-->QUOTE(dhu @ Oct 8 2007, 12:26 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Unkil Titus interviewer is much kinder than the<b> NT atheistic "scholars" (eg Price) - who amazingly seem to have fits when corresponding with Atwill</b>. We need to find out <b>why there is such a visceral reaction</b> against Atwill by persons we would presume to be on the anti-christian side. I think it has do with how the credibility of the "West" itself is affected.[right][snapback]74026[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I was really wondering about that earlier post showing how Richard Carrier was so opposed to Atwill. Carrier is a regular at infidels.org, so your question is very valid.
Why would <i>exactly those atheist Americans who regularly write to expose christian mythology</i> be opposed to Atwill's very sound thesis?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Unkil Titus interviewer is much kinder<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->By the end, I didn't mind the interviewer too much any more. He had started using "mythical jezus". The interviewer was sidetracking a lot (not for any malevolent reasons from what I could tell), but Atwill always managed to eventually finish the points that got interrupted.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It is also quite possible that "false-flag-type operations" (ie staged fights) are the standard modus operandi in the western psyche.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Certainly Chinese communists regularly dress up like Tibetan monks and then vandalise, giving Tibetan Buddhism a bad name. Presumably to get the Tibetan populace to become anti-Buddhist (or only anti-Lama-Buddhist) and anti-Dalai Lama.
Next to that, there's the christians doing the same in Sri Lanka:
http://www.christianaggression.org/item_di...S&id=1113838580
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->the disharmony began when they paid men to don the yellow robe and misbehave in society to create a rift between the Buddhist temples and the Buddhists by getting these ?fake Buddhist monks? to go and purchase liquor from the liquor bars, to go into meat stalls and super markets and purchase meat and fish for everyone to see, to go into restaurants after 12 noon and order food and partake of it, to be seen by others etc; the disharmony began when they use young couples to go into village temples in the night requesting shelter from the temple monk (on the excuse that they were travelling far) and in a short while the male would leave the female alone in the temple, and go out- within minutes, the girl would ring the temple bell and inform the villagers that the monk had tried to molest her( the purpose is to bring disrepute to innocent monks);<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->So yeah, it's a very christian thing. Or christoislamicommuninst thing - confirmed in the Indian situation too:
http://www.ivarta.com/cause/IC11_SCharya.htm
The guy pretending to be the Puri Shankaracharya:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->was used by Muslim and Christian organizations (Pioneer/HVK 10-06-02)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Why would <i>exactly those atheist Americans who regularly write to expose christian mythology</i> be opposed to Atwill's very sound thesis?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Unkil Titus interviewer is much kinder<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->By the end, I didn't mind the interviewer too much any more. He had started using "mythical jezus". The interviewer was sidetracking a lot (not for any malevolent reasons from what I could tell), but Atwill always managed to eventually finish the points that got interrupted.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It is also quite possible that "false-flag-type operations" (ie staged fights) are the standard modus operandi in the western psyche.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Certainly Chinese communists regularly dress up like Tibetan monks and then vandalise, giving Tibetan Buddhism a bad name. Presumably to get the Tibetan populace to become anti-Buddhist (or only anti-Lama-Buddhist) and anti-Dalai Lama.
Next to that, there's the christians doing the same in Sri Lanka:
http://www.christianaggression.org/item_di...S&id=1113838580
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->the disharmony began when they paid men to don the yellow robe and misbehave in society to create a rift between the Buddhist temples and the Buddhists by getting these ?fake Buddhist monks? to go and purchase liquor from the liquor bars, to go into meat stalls and super markets and purchase meat and fish for everyone to see, to go into restaurants after 12 noon and order food and partake of it, to be seen by others etc; the disharmony began when they use young couples to go into village temples in the night requesting shelter from the temple monk (on the excuse that they were travelling far) and in a short while the male would leave the female alone in the temple, and go out- within minutes, the girl would ring the temple bell and inform the villagers that the monk had tried to molest her( the purpose is to bring disrepute to innocent monks);<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->So yeah, it's a very christian thing. Or christoislamicommuninst thing - confirmed in the Indian situation too:
http://www.ivarta.com/cause/IC11_SCharya.htm
The guy pretending to be the Puri Shankaracharya:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->was used by Muslim and Christian organizations (Pioneer/HVK 10-06-02)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->