Religion
In reply to the discussion: Ancient Confession Found: 'We Invented Jesus Christ' [View all]struggle4progress
(118,236 posts)by spouting nonsense, one can appropriately respond by spouting other nonsense of one's own to mislead the public in some other direction
When you think someone is somehow misleading the public, then (of course) you are perfectly entitled to provide arguments against the views you consider misleading: indeed, there can be a very strong moral case for such counter-argument
But you will entirely lose any possible moral high ground, if you deliberately counter what you regard as misleading nonsense with your own misleading nonsense, because by doing so you will clearly demonstrate that you have no real moral objection to misleading people
And that, in fact, seems to me exactly what you do when, in response to my post (which provides an excerpt from a skeptics blog criticizing Atwill), you suggest I should "make a case that believing someone died and rose again from the dead is less kooky, less deluded and less likely to be false than Atwill's version of things". Atwill's thesis falls flat, whether or not anyone attempts to convince you to accept any particular religious beliefs