Atheists: What will you do if...?

Atheists ask for proof, and if the Rapture happens then that will be proof enough for me.

But it's not going to, dude.

Atheists have the education and intellect to know the truth and live in reality and know the fairy stories cannot come true!

Academia states that in the absence of any sort of evidence of the existence of something it must be deemed not to exist until verifiable evidence is found - thus god is held not to exist pending some sort of verifiable evidence.

The bible is what is called "Faction" A fictional story set in a factual time and place. Thus the time, place and real historical characters are all correct but the fictional characters and stories are not!

There is not one single mention of Jesus in the entire Roman record - that is right - not one! At the same time as he was supposed to have been around there were a number of Jews claiming to be the messiah - all of whom are well recorded!

There is not a single contemporary record from any source and even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!

He was supposed to have been a huge problem to the Romans and produced wonderful miracles but still not one contemporary record?

Even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!

Pilate is recorded in the Roman record as a somewhat lack luster man but no mention of a Jesus, a trial or crucifixion that would surely have been used to make him look brighter!

At best he was an amalgam of those others but almost certainly never existed!

Not one word of it is contemporary with the period and was not written until several hundred years after the period the story is set in!! How did the apostles write their books more than a hundred years after they would have been dead?

The first person to provide a shred of verifiable evidence for God or Jesus will become world famous and mega rich!

Ain't happened yet and it never will!

Please realize that those claims for the Old historians are worthless since they were not even born until long after everyone in the stories would have been so long dead!

Josephus AD 37 – AD 100

Tacitus AD 56 – AD 120

Suetonius - 69 – 130 AD

Pliny the Younger, 61 AD – 112 AD

Justin Martyr (Saint Justin) AD103–165 AD

Lucian - AD 120 -180 AD but he was hostile to Christianity and openly mocked it.

Pamphilius AD 240-309 AD

Eusebius AD 263 – 339 AD

Photius AD 877 – 886 AD

Thallus - But there are no actual record of him except a fragment of writing which mentions the sack of Troy [109 BC] Showing that he was clearly not alive in biblical times.

Some even try to use Seneca. 4 BCE – 65 CE but as a Stoic Philosopher he opposed religion yet made not a single mention of a Jesus or Christianity!

Even funnier is trying to claim Celsus AD ? – 177 AD Who said that Jesus was a Jew who’se mother was a poor Jewish girl whose husband, who was a carpenter, drove her away because of her adultery with a Roman soldier named Panthera. She gave birth to an illegitimate child named Jesus. In Egypt, Jesus became learned in sorcery and upon his return presented himself as a god.

Hell no! I get the dude's Mercedes from next door, the guy down the street's Harley, and any freakin' yacht I want! And I won't have to share any more of the beer! And there'll be plenty of sexy young wives left behind who'll need - um - comforting.

So you really believe that rapture nonsense, don't ya? *giggle*

Thats like asking if all elephants turn purple with neon colored spots on them tommorow would you then believe ?

Faith means you believe in something you know ain't so...... Mark Twain

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I do not pre-plan my reactions to extremely unlikely, hypothetical scenarios.

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Regards,

John Popelish

I'l worry about that when it happens - but since the chances of that are small to nil...

Zvi the Jewish Fiddler

I'd be more likely to believe they've been abducted by aliens.

I'll react the same way I will when the moon opens up and aliens come out, and when Santa Claus moves in next door and Superman becomes my mailman

Floaty people would be compelling evidence.

This is a hypothetical question about something that will never happen.