Thomas Arnold (of Oxford) wrote a 3 volume book on the history of Rome. His statement was:
"I know of no one fact in the history of mankind which is PROVED BY BETTER AND FULLER EVIDENCE of every sort, than the great sign which God has given us that Christ died and rose again from the dead."
The man said what he said, I can't prove him wrong in his statement.
The only historical evidence I know of the American Revolution is what I've read in a few history books. I've read 27 books of the New Testament, and I know at least 42 US Presidents have claimed to be Christian. To be honest I've read more historical evidence for Christ than I have for the American Revolution..
ETA: And I cannot remember reading any eyewitnesses to the American Revolution that specifically talked about the American Revolution. I doubt if any of the history books I've read that talked about the Amer. Rev. were written by eyewitnesses to it.
DAMNIT! That'll teach me to take the weekend off to prepare to watch Team USA beat Team Canada in hockey. <sigh>
First, yer a jackass.
B) Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Geo. Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, James Madison. What do they all have in common in re: your added point? They were all eyewitnesses who WROTE ABOUT THE FRELLING AMERICAN REVOLUTION....
jackass.
iii) Most of the history books that you, and most of us, have read are secondary accounts, to be sure. But a good one (like "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow) will be based on primary evidence, like the subject's own letters. In fact, "American Aurora" is almost exclusively made up of newspaper clippings of the day. Since it's a book about the role of newspapers in colonial/post-revolution America, they would be considered primary sources.
Fourth, there is no fourth point in this diatribe.
e) Go read something besides your heavily biased, historically inaccurate, belief-supporting crap. If you want to know what Thomas Jefferson thought about something, he probably wrote about it, go find a decent copy of his letters (there's a number of editions that will fit the bill here) and read. Hell, you can learn about whaling in the 18th century by doing that.
VI) Stop being a jackass. Seriously. You've been given enough hints at this point that to continue presenting the same information, the same useless sources, the same tired arguments just goes to further your reputiation as a liar and a jackass. It'll take less time to loose the jackass monicker, so I'd recommend going after that one first.
