Are you for real or just a fake board personality? Seriously... A right wing, flag waving, bible thumper on an adult webmaster board? Seems fishy.

personally, i doubt it would have ANY impact. Seventh Day Adventists gave up all their possessions believing the world would end in 1844. Mormons believe absolutely moronic things like the "fact" that native american indians are actually descendants from hebrews, in spite of the fact that its an impossibility. Jehovas Witnesses believe that dinasours never existed in spite of the obvious modern evidence to the contrary. Scientology, founding by a well known scam artist and convicted felon, teaches that an alien creature 75,000,000 years ago, brought billions of other alien creatures to die here on earth adn their souls are in our bodies causing any and all negative thoughts, feelings and emotions we have. Sun Myung Moon, convicted felon built a mulit billion dollar empire owning companies that were major defense contractors to major players in the global seafood industry by telling people he was the returning messiah until he died... at which point his son then of course, became the returning messiah. the list goes on. most religions are based on absolute absurdities that were easily disproven at one point or another. it never has any negative impact on their following or strength.

Yes but there's a fundamental danger here in comparing the ideologies of mainstream Christianity with some of the more obscure religious sects. If you add together all the followers of these religious sects and the overall credibility of their dogma's & ideologies in the general public's perception and compare it to those of mainstream Christianity then I'd say that Christianity outweights them by a huge margin and as a result of that huge disparity flaws that could be discovered in Christain dogma & ideology would have a larger and more far reaching effect to the public in general.

even then, flaws, contradictions and impossibilities are all over the place and abundant in the bible. even the concept of hell wasn't even a part of christianity and was added by the church. it was invented and injected into the bible because they needed a boogeyman to boost church membership. today its a fact in christianity.. there is a hell. you will burn forever if you do not follow gods law and accept jesus christ as your savior. followers do not question this.

the total net effect of all of christianities flaws and impossibilities and contradictions and murderous rampages in the name of peace and love.... christianity = the largest religion on the planet.

i believe that thinking that proving jesus was buried with his wife is going to change christianity is like suggesting that after having your whole family die in a plane crash, you will suddenly change your beliefs in what happened after death (they went to heaven etc) because someone had "proved" there is no heaven or maybe because they had "proven" that there was in fact an afterlife and its nothing but misery and suffering and you will never see your loved ones again.

any sane person would reject those notions reflexively and protect the reality they created to give themselves comfort and help them cope.

faith has nothing to do with fact. neither does religion. its about comfort, sense of purpose in life and security. people believe because it makes them feel better... not because it can be proven to be fact. the arguments of theology are nothing more than theatrics to rationalize an absurd belief system.

Yeup and yeup, and I suspect that in time more of those flaws and contradictions are going to be scrutinized and proven false to the point where, /*me sticks neck right out on block*/, Mr Nostradamus could be proven correct :winkwink: