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People die for false beliefs all the time. Atheist communists, Japanese kamikaze pilots, Heaven's Gate members, Jonestown followers and countless others have willingly died for convictions that others regard as false. Martyrdom proves sincerity, not truth.
Also the claim that "every Apostle died rather than deny the resurrection" is not established historical fact. For most of the apostles the accounts of their deaths come from much later uncorroborated church traditions and legendary acts written centuries after the events. Historically, we simply do not know how most of them died, let alone whether they were given a chance to recant.
So this argument fails on two levels: (1) people can and do die for false beliefs, and (2) the evidence that all the apostles actually died as martyrs for refusing to deny the resurrection is far weaker than is often claimed.
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People die for false beliefs all the time. Atheist communists, Japanese kamikaze pilots, Heaven's Gate members, Jonestown followers and countless others have willingly died for convictions that others regard as false. Martyrdom proves sincerity, not truth.
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