Indeed! People like McGrath love pointing to the apparent 'ridiculousness' of concepts like the cosmic sperm bank, no matter if it is not at all crucial for the case for *mythicism*, conveniently forgetting that they actually have to make a good case for *historicity*, and if they can't, which they can't, the *agnosticism* I espouse is entirely reasonable. Still waiting to hear why we should trust their hypothetical sources behind the Gospels rather than a conservative Christian's or a mythicist's...
Indeed! People like McGrath love pointing to the apparent 'ridiculousness' of concepts like the cosmic sperm bank, no matter if it is not at all crucial for the case for *mythicism*, conveniently forgetting that they actually have to make a good case for *historicity*, and if they can't, which they can't, the *agnosticism* I espouse is entirely reasonable. Still waiting to hear why we should trust their hypothetical sources behind the Gospels rather than a conservative Christian's or a mythicist's...