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Comment by emayljames | Hacker News Reader

Dare I say the bible comes to mind

There are many, many biblical texts from various centuries that agree with each other. The New Testament has twice as many ancient copies as any contemporary works. The Dead Sea scrolls are a good example of older copies being found… and they are no different from later copies.

How about all the historical fiction of Science or Atheism vs Christianity?

Pointing out that atheism and scientism are making up and embellishing their own history is more of a controversial take in these circles.

What is the historical fiction of Atheism?

This is my number one reason not to trust anything hawkers of religion state.

And paradoxically I trust new religious manuscripts even less. In the context of the modern world they just seem like obvious hoaxes.

Getting to watch things like Mormonism (and, to some extent, Scientology, though that's a bit of a different beast) develop under conditions that provide pretty good records and a variety of disinterested accounts, has definitely been instructive for interpreting plausible courses of development of older religions. "Why would all these people lie?" "Why would so many people attest to having seen something that was actually bullshit? It must have happened!"

Well... I mean, you'd think so, but not so much, it turns out.

We could probably add in any religious documents. Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, etc.

But, that wouldn't fit the, "Christianity bad" narrative.

Sure it would. It's just that the others are also bad.

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