re: #42 freetoken

That’s the thing. I have no problem saying that Mohammed may not have existed, though it seems a far remoter possibility than Jesus not existing, given the non-Muslim contemporary sources. But, granting that he did exist, it’s still obvious that much of his life was mythologized.

But the same reasons I use to discern that are true for Jesus, and truer and truer for every religious figure the farther we go back in history. One of the main things that the highly religious like to point to as a sign of credibility— the age of their religions— also means that almost nothing can really be known about the historical personages and events their religion claims to be true.