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> >why Amerimutts believe in god?
> "People don't die for a lie"
1) They do. Unless you want to apply that same argument to, say, the Baha'i or their teacher, or to Joseph Smith, or countless others. History is full of it. The complexities of the human psyche (pride, valuing honor above life, wanting to protect one's family from further dishonor, wanting to be martyred, believing the lie is a pious one or a metaphorical truth worth dying for) absolutely allow for it, so that it's not even necessary arguing for it having actually ever happened (it has, though) as it is still infinitely more likely than a resurrection.
2) The (propagandistic and wildly unreliable) texts that yahwists accept cites two people dying and does not make it clear why they were killed. In the story, Stephen apparently dies for defending orthodox judaism and claims to have a vision of the "son of man" (a name for a supreme angel or agent of creation in late second temple judaism, often a synonym for the cosmic embodiment of the jewish people, the messiah, or the logos of greek thought). In that same work of fiction, a James is said to have been killed, without further details. To clarify: none of the gruesome killings of direct eyewitnesses who refused to recant exist in any source that the yahwist accept. For instance, the quo vadis domine thing that yahwists basedjak over is from the apocryphal acts of Peter, a book that contains talking dogs, the resurrection of a smoked fish, and a flying wizard battle.