The Religion Group is Now Back to Its Normal State

[MineralMan]

As the grandfather of one high school girlfriend said, in his deep Italian accent:

"Everything come-a like-a soup - all mixed up."

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I am mixed up, for sure.

My question was answered and evidently there was NO one person attributable to the "stories" that later Paul or John then created their "stories" about.

Weird way for this to work but I suspect it applies to all history to some extent.

What about Mohammad, I wonder how that story came down?

Doesnt matter.

[marylandblue]

2. Mohammed is a little different

Because a lot of it was transcribed while Mohammed was still alive. So Mohammed would be the one. Even so, they wrote it down on scraps of paper or whatever, and some was just memorized, so there is still some question as to what is authentic or not. The bigger issue is whether you believe Mohammed actually spoke to God. He didn't even pretend to do miracles or make prophecies.

[Voltaire2]

4. Well there was the flying horses thing.

[marylandblue]

5. Conveniently, nobody saw it

[Pope George Ringo II]

6. It could be worse

For example, there's a group out there which practices ritual cannibalism. The body of their voluntary human sacrifice was last seen by the high priests of the cannibal sect. They've spent a couple of thousand years fantasizing about leftovers, and one of their great mysteries is what happened to the human sacrifice's body. Apparently it just disappeared somehow. Magically.

The flying horse thing seems pretty tame by comparison.

[Voltaire2]

3. Well no, we have quite a lot of historical

evidence for other things.

Mohammed also didn’t bother writing anything down. So the Koran and the Hadith are texts that “settled” into their current form(s) centuries after his life.