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None mention anything about his supernatural affiliations.
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Well, that's not exactly right. Most of us eat them.
They are delicious breaded and deep fried. And maybe a little ketchup.
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But there are other things to talk about surely.
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Been there done that on being a member of organized religion. I consider myself a spiritual being now, and am quite content. I appreciated the point about the US Constitution's precise wording. I am frankly dumbfounded as to why no one hasn't brought suit yet to force the issue. |
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Don't even get me started on war, the death penalty, blowing up abortion clinics, bullying.....all in the name of religion.....
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You'd think people would clue in that christianity is a mythology like any other, and one that adopted the practices of other religions to gain followers. Yet people still whine that saying Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas is an attack on christians...yet the holiday itself isn't even originally christian. Have faith in it if you'd like, but there's hardly any logic to pursuing the idea that christians/religious people bear any kind of moral/behavioural high ground. The entire history of christianity tends to counter that logic. Quote:
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Anything else written about his life is pretty much pure speculation. Highly unlikely that he was a philosopher of any kind. In the Greco-Roman and medieval Jewish tradition, this would have required literacy and he was likely not literate. Additionally, there is no evidence about his own beliefs, and much of the moral code later attributed to christianity was likely inspired by judaism or created after his death since the New Testament was pieced together over centuries also after his death. It would have been unlikely that the Romans would have recorded much about his religious leanings. Christianity at that point wouldn't have been called christianity and would have been among a number of other cults present throughout the Roman Empire. Jesus himself would not have called it "christianity." Additionally, the supernatural factors within his life were added later, and were largely inspired directly by Mesopotamian mythology. Quote:
But their writings do suggest that at one point there was a Jesus of some sorts involved in the Jewish revolt against Roman occupation. |
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