Reply #59: at the risk of sounding like a snob

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which I am, this has nothing to do with red herrings, non sequitors, straw men, or bad research.

The bible as a subject of research is just mythology, worthy of no more than a perfunctory bullfinch review.

Not only do I not believe that jesus existed at all ever, I also don't believe that parlor tricks like walking on water ever happened except as a storyteller's exercise to demonstrate the divinity of their subject.

You can "research" all you want, first let's find out if your research subject ever existed in anything other than parable form.