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Why I can't take the Gospels seriously.
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Oh camon, ya got to love suicidal pigs.
And feeding thousands with a few fish tacos, brilliant!
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
As the Wiki article suggests, this story makes no sense as history. Plus, the name of the bandit is literally, "Jesus, son of God". It sounds like some stories got mixed together.
 RE: Why I can't take the Gospels seriously.
June 8, 2021 at 6:15 pm
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2021 at 6:15 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
I don’t take the Gospels seriously because most of the characters are thoroughly unlikable people. Wouldn’t have ‘em in me house.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
 
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
Historical Jesus taught a few classes. Should have put more into his writing. Got caught with weed. And that was it. It's all right there in the Gospels.
 (June 8, 2021 at 11:28 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Everything in the Gospels is either invented or folklore or too impossible to have happened, so why do some people still insist that there was some historical Jesus?Mostly because the core story of an itinerant rabbi who may or may not have been named Jesus and preached many of the same things Jesus preached and perhaps ended up pissing off the Romans enough to give him a drawn-out death by crucifixion is plausible enough to have perhaps been real?
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
![[Image: harmlesskitchen.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/yxR97P23/harmlesskitchen.png) I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad. (June 8, 2021 at 11:54 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Mostly because the core story of an itinerant rabbi who may or may not have been named Jesus and preached many of the same things Jesus preached and perhaps ended up pissing off the Romans enough to give him a drawn-out death by crucifixion is plausible enough to have perhaps been real? But did Jesus in the Gospels piss off Romans? It seems he pissed off Jews.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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