So, after Jesus' death nothing happens. For 100-150 years, nothing. So now, all these early Christians are like, WTF? My great great grandpa said this Yeshua guy was supposed to come back before he died. Nothing? Maybe this shit ain't real? And then this guy (NOT Peter, mind you, this epistle is recognized by biblical scholars to be pseudepigraphical) in the early church movement is like "well God is different, guys, to him a day isn't a day, you know?"
And there you have it. An easy stifling of early skepticism. A skill the church honed and practiced until the enlightenment. Then the people started to grow smarter than the church. It's slow, but the intelligentsia is slowly taking over.
And there you have it. An easy stifling of early skepticism. A skill the church honed and practiced until the enlightenment. Then the people started to grow smarter than the church. It's slow, but the intelligentsia is slowly taking over.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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