People who think they have the answer often want to spout it to everyone. Hence, Facebook.

(February 8, 2013 at 12:31 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: People who think they have the answer often want to spout it to everyone. Hence, Facebook.

I don't think I have an answer which is THE TRUTH. All I'm doing is looking at human behaviour and wondering how some weird cult got started in Judea. We can't deny that some weird cult started somewhere because Christianity is with us today. John M Allegro's idea that Jesus was really some kind of psychedelic mushroom cult could turn out to be the true origin of Christianity.

(February 8, 2013 at 12:45 pm)Confused Ape Wrote:

(February 8, 2013 at 12:31 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: People who think they have the answer often want to spout it to everyone. Hence, Facebook.

I don't think I have an answer which is THE TRUTH. All I'm doing is looking at human behaviour and wondering how some weird cult got started in Judea. We can't deny that some weird cult started somewhere because Christianity is with us today. John M Allegro's idea that Jesus was really some kind of psychedelic mushroom cult could turn out to be the true origin of Christianity.

My opinion is that Catholicism is based on the mushroom cult. Still up in the air as to the origins of Yeshua's tale...
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Or a bunch of people were believing in apocalyptic prophecies to explain their shitty lives? Still works today.

Haters... Making life more fun day after day...
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(February 8, 2013 at 12:53 pm)catfish Wrote: My opinion is that Catholicism is based on the mushroom cult. Still up in the air as to the origins of Yeshua's tale....

I think the mushroom cult idea is far more interesting than some failed Messiah getting executed.

(February 8, 2013 at 1:07 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Or a bunch of people were believing in apocalyptic prophecies to explain their shitty lives? Still works today.

Maybe they'd given up on the idea of getting a human Messiah who would drive the Romans out of Judea and decided they'd rather have a supernatural one instead. You can't fail with a Messiah who refuses to stay dead.

All those beliefs about loving one's neighbour etc. went out of the window when the Roman faction got into power, though.

(February 8, 2013 at 1:17 pm)Confused Ape Wrote:

(February 8, 2013 at 12:53 pm)catfish Wrote: My opinion is that Catholicism is based on the mushroom cult. Still up in the air as to the origins of Yeshua's tale....

I think the mushroom cult idea is far more interesting than some failed Messiah getting executed.

Research early Christianity...
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(February 8, 2013 at 1:20 pm)catfish Wrote: Research early Christianity...
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Gnostic Christianity is fascinating and very different from what ended up as Christianity. Tacitus could have been referring to Jewish Gnosticism which broke out again after somebody was supposed to have been executed. We'll never know why Jewish Gnosticism or whatever it was spread to Rome after Pilate's time, though

Once the Roman faction got firmly established they didn't show respect to anyone who believed something different to what they promoted and this takes us back to the opening post in this topic.

Gnosticism isn't the same a early Christianity.
Early Christianity was almost identical to Judeaism (sp?) in it's origins. After all, Yeshua was a Jew according to the story, correct?
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(February 8, 2013 at 1:10 pm)catfish Wrote: Haters... Making life more fun day after day...
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Please explain how following a simple explanation given that human nature has changed very little is "hating," without resorting to middle school antics. Thank you.