Jesus Camp
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Hey gramme, thanks for the reasoned response man. In retrospect I probably should have omitted the last line of that post as it was needlessly provocative. The bottom line is of course that we don't know and will NEVER KNOW, absent Jesus returning to Earth in which case I will happily eat my words.
Anyway, you provide some interesting historical context. I'd add one thing though, I don't think any of this means you need to reject the moral principles that are in The Bible - many of them, especially in the New Testament are positive things that we all agree on. The question I have is whether these things would have sprung up independently of religion. Think about the huge difference in philosophy between the West and the Muslim World for instance. Would those two cultures have naturally settled into those different paths or did it require religion to do it?