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October 16, 2013 at 9:22 pm
http://www.livescience.com/3482-jesus-man.html
Quote:The following "facts" about Jesus would be affirmed by most history scholars, Borg said:
Jesus was born sometime just before 4 B.C. He grew up in Nazareth, a small village in Galilee, as part of the peasant class. Jesus' father was a carpenter and he became one, too, meaning that they had likely lost their agricultural land at some point.
Jesus was raised Jewish and he remained deeply Jewish all of his life. His intention was not to create a new religion. Rather, he saw himself as doing something within Judaism.
He left Nazareth as an adult, met the prophet John and was baptized by John. During his baptism, Jesus likely experienced some sort of divine vision.
Shortly afterwards, Jesus began his public preaching with the message that the world could be transformed into a "Kingdom of God."
He became a noted healer, teacher and prophet. More healing stories are told about Jesus than about any other figure in the Jewish tradition.
He was executed by Roman imperial authority.
His followers experienced him after his death. It is clear that they had visions of Jesus as they had known him during his historical life. Only after his death did they declare Jesus to be "Lord" or "the Son of God."
Note that even this watered down version of the godboy story has not a single recognizable FACT to support it.
Let's hear the xtians howl.
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RE: Laughable
October 16, 2013 at 9:27 pm
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(October 16, 2013 at 9:22 pm)Minimalist Wrote: During his baptism, Jesus likely experienced some sort of divine vision.
It is also known, that Jesus likely used to sniff Peter's undergarments. True story!
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
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RE: Laughable
October 16, 2013 at 9:41 pm
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Does Peter's peter smell like peter, or Peter, or Peter's peter. Peter, wood, junk, dong, funstick, cock, balltopper, dick, boner, meat, asspacker, gobblestick, moneypole... I could go on and on. But, I digress.
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RE: Laughable
October 16, 2013 at 9:45 pm
(October 16, 2013 at 9:41 pm)freedomfromfallacy Wrote: Peter, wood, junk, dong, funstick, cock, balltopper, dick, boner, meat, asspacker, gobblestick, moneypole
Say that as fast as you can ten times in a row!
(And you forgot my personal favorite, skin flute!)
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
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RE: Laughable
October 16, 2013 at 9:49 pm
(October 16, 2013 at 9:22 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://www.livescience.com/3482-jesus-man.html
Quote:The following "facts" about Jesus would be affirmed by most history scholars, Borg said:
Jesus was born sometime just before 4 B.C. He grew up in Nazareth, a small village in Galilee, as part of the peasant class. Jesus' father was a carpenter and he became one, too, meaning that they had likely lost their agricultural land at some point.
Jesus was raised Jewish and he remained deeply Jewish all of his life. His intention was not to create a new religion. Rather, he saw himself as doing something within Judaism.
He left Nazareth as an adult, met the prophet John and was baptized by John. During his baptism, Jesus likely experienced some sort of divine vision.
Shortly afterwards, Jesus began his public preaching with the message that the world could be transformed into a "Kingdom of God."
He became a noted healer, teacher and prophet. More healing stories are told about Jesus than about any other figure in the Jewish tradition.
He was executed by Roman imperial authority.
His followers experienced him after his death. It is clear that they had visions of Jesus as they had known him during his historical life. Only after his death did they declare Jesus to be "Lord" or "the Son of God."
Note that even this watered down version of the godboy story has not a single recognizable FACT to support it.
Let's hear the xtians howl.
I have said countless times his existence, even if prove true with DNA tomorrow, would not make POOFBABIES and Zombie God stories true.
All it would mean is mere MORTAL existed and believed in a superstition and sold a superstition and successfully marketed a superstition.
We know George Washington was a real person, but no sane person would claim he could fart a Lamborghini out of his ass.
We can see the city of New York as a backdrop in Superman movies but that does not mean Superman is real.
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RE: Laughable
October 16, 2013 at 10:02 pm
It is also known that Jesus enjoyed gay sex.
What?! They don't offer any proof. I say there's more evidence that jesus was a homosexual than there is that he was an earthbound deity.
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RE: Laughable
October 16, 2013 at 10:11 pm
God (the Holy Spirit) came upon her and she conceived. Luke 1:35
What do we take from this?
And so the Lord jizzeth....
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RE: Laughable
October 16, 2013 at 10:48 pm
Quote:His followers experienced him after his death.
Is this a polite way of saying that they were necrophiliacs?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: Laughable
October 16, 2013 at 11:33 pm
Or hallucinating.
Or, more likely, lying.
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RE: Laughable
October 17, 2013 at 12:05 am
Or they're zombie sighting mass hysterics with a conspiracy buff's sense of skepticism. Also, maybe they are just characters in a piece of propagandist fiction, utilized to lend credence to the fantastical claims of the author.
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