Achilles' heel

Ed Tyler etyler@truman.edu
Tue, 08 Dec 1998 18:07:26 -0600 (00913183646, 3.0.5.32.19981208180726.009e1180@pop.truman.edu) 

At 04:42 PM 12/8/98 -0500, achillesz@usa.net wrote:

>> ED

>> 

>> Well, Achilles, you have no business accusing anyone of allowing

>> enthusiasm to cloud objectivity.  Your assertions about the nature of the

>> gospels are thoroughly specious, and every time I point out one of the

>> numerous deficiencies in the mythicist position, you respond with "No one

>> is claiming that..." and "You haven't read it closely, or you'd know that

>> Doherty is making no such claim."  

>

>ACHILLES

>

>You have yet to point out a single actual deficiency of that position.

Despite 

>my making numerous efforts to get you to actually address it instead of your 

>straw men, it was apparent from your first post to the last one that you

either 

>never understood the position at all or else just enjoyed the straw man

more. 

>

>At several points I asked you to provide evidence for your assumptions,

which 

>you did not answer, but simply continued to make assertions. After spending 

>hours of my time working on those posts only to see you deal with them so 

>cavalierly, ignoring questions of highest relevance, making endless

assertions 

>but declining to provide evidence or reason to support them, and steadfastly 

>refusing to address the actual position Doherty espouses but rather

producing 

>your own straw men to knock down, I simply wrote the matter off as a waste

of 

>time and let it drop. 


Ed

I have repeatedly demonstrated the irrelevance of the canonical Pauline
epistles to the historical Jesus question and posted a lengthy refutation
of the lectionary hypothesis, all of which you have completely ignored.  It
is obvious that you let the matter drop only because you don't have the
responses to provide.  

Unless you are prepared to 

1) at least attempt to establish the relevancy of the canonical epistles, and

2) deal with the specific points of my earlier post on Mk 13:32 and Mt. 24:36

you should merely concede that you don't have anything worthwhile to say on
the matter and cease with these infantile ad hominem attacks which are
merely petulant, bald-faced lies.