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Liturgical re-enchantment : Comments

By Peter Sellick, published 20/6/2019

The worship of the Church remakes an enchanted word in which strangers from another time and place become our forefathers and in which God comes to dwell with His people.

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The Atheist,

You said, "There is absolutely no evidence that Jesus ever existed."

From pro comments'

"About 20 years after Josephus we have the Roman politicians Pliny and Tacitus, who held some of the highest offices of state at the beginning of the second century AD. From Tacitus, we learn that Jesus was executed while Pontius Pilate was the Roman prefect in charge of Judaea (AD26-36) and Tiberius was emperor (AD14-37) – reports that fit with the timeframe of the gospels. Pliny contributes the information that, where he was governor in northern Turkey, Christians worshipped Christ as a god. Neither of them liked Christians – Pliny writes of their “pig-headed obstinacy” and Tacitus calls their religion a destructive superstition."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/14/what-is-the-historical-evidence-that-jesus-christ-lived-and-died

Care to comment?
Posted by Is Mise, Saturday, 22 June 2019 8:00:44 PM
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The Guardian, really.
You really need to read more widely.
Posted by TheAtheist, Sunday, 23 June 2019 5:25:34 PM
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Peter, If religious tradition and liturgy makes your wife and yourself happy, indulge by all means. However, your pleasure in it does not give you a licence to try to impose it on others who do not share in the underlying mythology of religions per se. The world had better face up to the decreasing belief in the mythology underpinning all mainstream religions and find ways to adjust the regulation of society to traditions, culture and relative moralities that are broadly accepted. Political correctness is NOT one of these by the way.
Posted by Pliny of Perth, Monday, 24 June 2019 12:22:27 PM
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TheAtheist,

"The Guardian, really.
You really need to read more widely."

So you can't refute the reference, and you really need to improve your written English, the first 'really', in the quote is really superfluous.
Posted by Is Mise, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 9:23:09 AM
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I never claimed to be an orator.
The guardian is a known Theist sympathizer.
Check the source yourself without your religious blinkers on.
Posted by TheAtheist, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 5:21:40 PM
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TheAtheist,

I read Tacitus and Pliny years ago when doing Ancient History;
do you think that those two made it up?
Posted by Is Mise, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 10:24:30 PM
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