Can you explain how it’s lying when parents teach the Santa Claus myth but it’s not lying when parents teach their kids the God/Jesus myth?
@GodlessLiz Anyone who subscribes to the “Jesus myth” idea obviously hasn’t done any research into this. I can’t take these folks seriously. No credible scholar or historian familiar with the facts denies the existence of Jesus.
@grim_prime @GodlessLiz Thought experiment: Let's say their was a fairly normal public person - let's call him John McCain. A couple decades after his death, someone writes a "biography" containing multitudes of magical fictions. When ordered to bomb innocent vietnamese rice farmers, 1/
@grim_prime @GodlessLiz for instance, the bombs turn into rainbows as they fall. When his plane gets shot down, he floats gently to the ground on a cloud of flowers. He delivers a sermon to the Viet Cong so moving that it ends the Vietnam War - nay, the Cold War! - nay, Communism! - 2/
@grim_prime @GodlessLiz before being teleported to wander the desert of Arizona for forty days, staving off the temptations of Nathan Bedford Forrest. (It's a mystery how the author of the book knew the exact wording of both conversations despite writing decades later 3/
@grim_prime @GodlessLiz without any sort of reliable source, but we'll just have to take it on faith!) He once was so furious at the thought of universal healthcare that he farted loudly enough to shatter every window in Washington (yet that somehow wasn't recorded by any contemporary source) 4/