Ark of the Covenant

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But have you ever noticed that detractors of the Bible claim that everything is a tale? Or if it isn't entirely a tale, its greatly embellished? That's a whole lot of tales? One would reason that out of so many tales coming from the same region, that at least a few of them are actually true.

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But have you ever noticed that detractors of the Bahavigad Gita claim that everything is a tale? Or if it isn't entirely a tale, its greatly embellished? That's a whole lot of tales? One would reason that out of so many tales coming from the same region, that at least a few of them are actually true.

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Nope. I've never met one Bhagavad Gita detractor in my life, which is likely why I've never noticed such a thing.

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Er, are you purposely missing the point, or did you just...miss the point?I mean, are you saying that you believe everything that is stated in the Bahavigad gita is probably true?

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I'm stating that I have little knowledge on Bahavigad Gita. I can't make fair assessments or pronouncements on things that I know little about. Conversely, I believe many of the Bible's most scathing critics only have a nominal familiarity with it, thus rendering their opinion of it null and void.

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But that's not what you stated originally.What you, in essence, wrote was that the people who call the Bible a "bunch of tales" are missing the forest for the trees, and that some of the tales in the bible are likely to be true simply because there are so many of them.The point I was making is that just because there are a lot of tales in the Bible doesn't mean that any of them are true.The number of tales in any religious text has nothing at all to do with the truth of any of those tales.The reason I brought up the Hindu holy text was because, being a Christian, you, by definition, reject them since they are not part of the Christian mythos.However, if we are to apply your logic, you must accept at least a few of the Hindu myths as true, simply because there are so many of them in the book.It is a debate techniqe known as reductio ad absurdum.