Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On Tue, 27 May 2025 17:05:32 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:

<snippo -- enjoying myself immensely>

More assertions:
1. Jesus had something to say about those who sought "signs and
wonders". And it wasn't very nice.

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1) How do you know such a person actually existed?
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2) How do you know that person, assuming he existed,
  said anything about "signs and wonders"?

Who said he actually existed? If I said "Bilbo Baggins found the One
Ring in the roots of the Misty Mountains", would you ask how I know he
existed or that he actually found it?

Don't point to the KJV - primary contemporaneous sources only.

Funny, isn't it -- most people I run across online who cite the KJV
are atheists, trying a Straw Bible argument.

I don't doubt that there are a few people who still revere (if not
worship) the KJV, but most of the more recent Bible translations
appear to have been done for /former/ partisans of the KJV, so the
numbers are greatly reduced.

Oh, and past experience suggests that any criterion that requires
Jesus Christ to not have existed equally well requires Julius Caesar
to not have existed. As atheist assertions go, this is an old one.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"