Well said Foxy Paul and S.R. To believe anything as a faith based only, (brainwashed from birth) view. One needs to hold open in the mind, the possibility, that the opposite could also be true!

If e.g. one believes J.C. died on a cross, raised folk from their grave, fed a thousand from one basket of fish and bread?

Then one must consider in absence of verified ironclad, irrefutable, evidence, just she said he said, then one needs to consider the entire story could be an embellished fabrication to lend credulence to the claim that J.C was the predicted Messiah?

And the foundation of all Christian religions? And all Church Authority? Replete with a history soaked on blood, horror stories and peadophillia? See pillars of the earth.
Alan B.

Mean Girl Keneally seen praying in a Catholic church pre-Easter despite having written in the past, "Catholicism has done more harm to Australia than Islam".

She has, unsurprisingly, been accused of hypocrisy for using a church that she said was worse than Islam for political purposes. She might have seen the light, but who would believe it!

ttbn, you speak from a point of ignorance, the Keneally's have always been practising Catholics, regular Sunday church goers long as I've known them and that's over 10 years. I respect their right to do the church thing, as I've said before I'm no fan of KKK's politics or her personal style of dealing with people, but she's not a hypocrite in that regard.

AlanB wrote: "the story of an alleged crucifixion was written some 350 years after the event?"

That is "factual nonsense"

Being Good Friday I'll share what I wrote on another
thread (paraphrasing Dr Seuss - and making it my own):

I moan and groan when I try to walk
I repeat myself when I do talk
I need glasses to help me see
And I'm far to old to hold my pee

So bear with me folks - the church bells are ringing
Voices of the faithful are joyously singing
Christ has risen, Easter is here
The Easter Bunny is drawing near

Chocolates and eggs, big and small
Will gladly be shared by one and all
Happy days with family
Will be spent with joy quite happily.

HAPPY EASTER TO ONE AND ALL!

Ex Anglican clergyman, Peter Wales, reminds his readers how, on the occasion of Christian festivals some idiots always claim that the festivals, including Easter, are actually pagan festivals appropriated by Christians.

People as ignorant as the dills taking issue with Spencer Gear here.