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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @06:56PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @06:56PM (#758635)

    Can go all the way back to Socrates WRT people getting really butt hurt about sophistry and arguments in general. A more biblical scholar might find an anecdote pre-dating Socrates.

    Maybe, but since the Bible is nearly all fiction, those citations won't mean a thing. At least Socrates actually existed, something which cannot be said for most of the fictional characters in the Bible. And those that did exist are completely misrepresented by the document ("spin" old- and new-testament style)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @04:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @04:10PM (#760945)

    Maybe, but since the Bible is nearly all fiction, those citations won't mean a thing.

    Whoever wrote those texts certainly existed. And them including such things in their texts means at least that such things were not alien to those authors.