Sam Talks about how common miracle claims are in the modern world. He references Sathya Sai Baba in this speech, a spiritual leader with millions of followers who died last year: en.wikipedia.org As for the stories of Jesus...The consensus of Christian scholars is that the biblical gospels were written between 70 and 105AD. They were based on stories spread via word of mouth in one of the most primitive and superstitious parts of the world, before finally being written down in a different country and a different language (Greek) than the one they were originally told in. Worse still is the fact that we don't even have any original copies of these stories, but scattered fragments of copies of copies of copies of the originals, most of which are from the 3rd and 4th century. So the time between when these events supposedly happened and the first scraps we can get our hands on is 200+ years! Moreover, the gospels are completely anonymous. We have no idea who wrote them, who the! ir sources were, or how trustworthy their sources were. See Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus and Jesus Interrupted for more information on this topic: www.amazon.com www.amazon.com Contrast this with today; You can talk to not only 1, 2, 3, or 4 witnesses about Saytha Sai Baba's miracles, but THOUSANDS. Thousands of *living breathing* people from all walks of life will testify to his healing powers, his ability to raise people from the dead, to conjure objects from thin air, etc. His following is in the
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