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Well ok loser, seeing as how you know so much about him, what were his teachings about. All I could find on the wiki was violence brought by him to the world, so tell me then what he did and said, please.

When you say "him", are you referring to Jesus or Saint James? Since the thread is about James, I would assume that you are referring to 'him' but I wanted to be certain before I responded.

Thanks...

Because someone disagrees with you doesn't make that person either ignorant or biased.

Absolutely and I agree completely! I hope that my response didn't seem to suggest this about Charlatan. I was merely pointing out that the information that he was basing his post upon was highly speculative and/or imaginative. Rarely can we arrive at logical conclusions if we start with faulty assumptions.

Further, I'm interested in why, in your reply to Charlatan, you invoke and summarily dismiss myths such as Santa Claus, yet you seem fine with your own Christian myths. Why is that?

There are very big differences between the two, don't you think? The tenets of the Christian faith are presumed to be based on fact. Santa Claus (or, at least, our modern concept of him) is presumed to be fictitious.

I readily admit that the exploits of Jesus may seem ever bit as incredulous as the feats of Santa. This is irrelevant, however. All of our beliefs are based on assumptions, presumptions, and deductions...logical or otherwise. There is no proof that Abraham Lincoln ever lived, I just assume that the historical account is correct. In the same way, I accept as fact the story of Jesus.

I think that I am like most people in that I don't want to be fooled (a fool). If Christianity was as ridiculous a myth as Santa, I wouldn't believe it. My experiences have shown the Christian faith to be a reality and Santa not.

I am a thinker and a skeptic. I don't blindly follow any beliefs without question. God and the Bible have sufficiently 'proven' themselves to me many times over. That's a lot more than I can say about other 'truths' such as evolution. To a logical thinker like myself, evolution just hasn't measured up.