Jul 15 2010
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“ Bible scholars agree that the first gospels were written decades after the life of Jesus. Decades. And, of course, we don’t have the original manuscript. We have copies of copies of copies of ancient Greek manuscripts, which have thousands — literally thousands — of discrepancies between them, many of which show signs of later interpolation, which is to say that people added passages that then became part of the canon. There are whole books, like the Book of Revelation, which for hundreds of years were not included, because they were deemed false gospel… Generations of Christians lived and died being guided by gospel that is now deemed both incomplete and mistaken.
— Sam Harris (via cocknbull)
