socrates maybe?
he did effect philsophy in all kinds of ways, including how it works how people debate philsophy and come up with new ideas
i guess arguing from majority is suposed to sway us to your view ian?
come on man you've been on evc long enough to know that is a fallacy that doesn't work. It wasn't jesus who is prominant but the stories, beliefs and ideas about him that are prominant. to attribute the popularity of jesus to jesus is just narrowing the pov. he's dead he didn't do a damn thing
Google has spoken already today.
sorry but using how many hits a term comes up with on google is inane at the highest, you don't seem to realize the number of hits something has is useless, anyone can put a word under the key listing in the html so google picks it up, thats what they do with porn sites so they get more hits
Gallingly, atheists add to that prominance by spending lots of time talking about him - even if it is only to argue against his existance.
he's a religous figure of nearly 2 billion people or more, and they talk about him a lot, whats your point?
being the subject of a religion with a huge following would mean the subject would be talkeb about, its kind of hard to talk about christianity without talking about christ don't you think?
Edited by ReverendDG, : typos and such