Whatever the case may be, I'll look forward to your critique to my section on the historicity of Jesus for _Jury_ (http://freethought.tamu.edu/criticism/mcdowell/etdav/), once it's complete.
Jftill@aol.com wrote:
> I happen to believe that there are good reasons for doubting if the
> man Jesus ever even existed. (I think that he was probably a
> quasi-historical person, but that doesn't keep me from seeing that
> those who argue that he never existed period have some good points
> on their side.) Let's suppose that somehow it becomes a provable
> fact that Jesus never existed at all. That still wouldn't remove
> the moral system that developed around the myth, so what would you
> call a person who (in this scenario) would acknowledge that Jesus
> never existed but nevertheless thought that the moral system of the
> fictional Jesus was so excellent that he wanted to continue to be
> guided in his life by it and to teach others that they should follow
> it too?
I don't what I would call such a person, but I definitely wouldn't call them a Christian.
Jeff Lowder <jlowder@southwind.com>