Posted: Oct 20, 2011 6:21 pm
jamest wrote:Just a thought...
It strikes me as ironic, at a minimum, regards the lengths people will go to to support hearsay in some circumstances and reject it in others. Take this issue, for instance, where the vast majority of people here believe that Hitler died in Berlin - all grounded within the hearsay of a few people. On the other hand, the vast majority of the people here utterly reject the hearsay associated with the life and death of Jesus. Hearsay, then, appears to be good enough when you want it to be good enough. I can certainly understand that sentiment here - after all, most people would be horrified to know that Hitler might have been living it up for the best part of 20 years, after the war, instead of being hung by his balls (ball?) and left to rot.
The problem is that sentiment has very little to do with fact. Certainly, sentiment shouldn't dictate what facts are.
Well the two situations are so very different, aren't they. In fact the converse is true here, the miracles that we are required to believe in the Hitler escape story are analogous to the miracles we are expected to believe in with regards to the Galilean. And again, you need to reconsider what you call hearsay. Hearsay is second hand testimony "so and so said this". Witness testimony is direct. We have a huge number of information taken from people who were there, in the bunker, who witnessed the final downfall of Hitler. We have consistent accounts from those who buried him, and those who observed it (although only the first group could have witnessed the corpses directly. And those accounts did not break down under what would no doubt have been handling from the Soviets with a distinct lack of kid gloves!
Even if there is after such a big distance in time no forensic evidence of the likes you may have come to expect from TV criminologist shows may not exist, but when the balance of likelihoods come down so heavily on one side of a question it is not close-minded or simple arguments from authority to accept it!