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    Thread: RELIGION IS OVER By Michael Sherlock
Post: RE: RELIGION IS OVER By Michael Sherlock

(February 9, 2013 at 9:50 pm)ManMachine Wrote: (February 7, 2013 at 9:59 pm)Gooders1002 Wrote: Religion is Dying, you just don't know it yet. It seems fitting that such an ill concieved video fini...
michaelsherlock Religion 20 5979 February 14, 2013 at 9:49 am
    Thread: RELIGION IS OVER By Michael Sherlock
Post: RE: RELIGION IS OVER By Michael Sherlock

Thanks for posting this! Here is a trailer of my book, if you are interested... [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joqweUMq0q8] Hope you enjoy and I have two other videos. One on misogyny in R...
michaelsherlock Religion 20 5979 February 14, 2013 at 8:03 am
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

(June 26, 2012 at 9:47 pm)LEDO Wrote: (June 26, 2012 at 8:27 pm)Minimalist Wrote: But religious "salesmen" are not selling reality anyway. They do not need a real "jesus" any more than any other ...
michaelsherlock Religion 605 415294 June 28, 2012 at 8:01 pm
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

(June 25, 2012 at 2:43 am)cratehorus Wrote: So Herod Archelaus invented the Jesus myth, so he could become king? I don't understand your question.
michaelsherlock Religion 605 415294 June 25, 2012 at 7:51 pm
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

(June 25, 2012 at 12:30 am)Minimalist Wrote: Josephus' tale is in here. http://www.ccel.org/j/josephus/works/ant-17.htm Scroll down to Chapter 8 and continue from there. Remember, Josephus was ...
michaelsherlock Religion 605 415294 June 25, 2012 at 2:12 am
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

Quote:The nobility petitioned Augustus to remove him as tetrarch and the nobility included the priests. Why?
michaelsherlock Religion 605 415294 June 25, 2012 at 12:02 am
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

(June 24, 2012 at 8:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://www.livius.org/he-hg/herodians/he...ppa_i.html Quote:Caligula became emperor and almost immediately restored the principality; as its king, he app...
michaelsherlock Religion 605 415294 June 24, 2012 at 11:20 pm
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

(June 24, 2012 at 8:12 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Yes, Herod Agrippa I was a boyhood friend of Caligula and when the opportunity presented itself he was appointed "king." Oddly, Herod Antipas, Philip an...
michaelsherlock Religion 605 415294 June 24, 2012 at 8:15 pm
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

(June 22, 2012 at 11:48 am)Minimalist Wrote: That's a long way from saying that Josephus wrote it, though. BTW, whoever wrote "Luke" did not pay enough attention to Josephus. He fucked up the whol...
michaelsherlock Religion 605 415294 June 24, 2012 at 8:01 pm
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

(June 21, 2012 at 11:34 am)Minimalist Wrote: (June 21, 2012 at 10:45 am)cratehorus Wrote: Before we start getting into why christians shove pine trees in their living rooms. Let's get something cl...
michaelsherlock Religion 605 415294 June 22, 2012 at 8:16 am
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

(June 20, 2012 at 12:27 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:What have you READ that has given rise to your rejection of the Bible's general historical reliability and authenticity? The bible itself. Paradi...
michaelsherlock Religion 605 415294 June 20, 2012 at 8:09 pm
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

Quote:And have you got any contemporary accounts of jesus's life yet? Just curious....... Craig Blomberg and Paul Barnett, plus maggie from the down the road. The other Jesus spoke to her, and told...
michaelsherlock Religion 605 415294 June 20, 2012 at 7:21 am
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

(June 19, 2012 at 8:27 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: michaelsherlock Wrote:I agree. Historicists like Ehrman and others, say we should take into account Genre, but to what point does this genre encroach ...
michaelsherlock Religion 605 415294 June 19, 2012 at 8:52 pm
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

Quote:Yeah, I agree completely. I think the answer can be easily attained, but only if one is ready to step back and look at the Gospels from different perspectives than just an historical account. ...
michaelsherlock Religion 605 415294 June 19, 2012 at 7:13 pm
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

(June 19, 2012 at 7:29 am)FallentoReason Wrote: michaelsherlock Wrote:...as the primary material we have for the Jesus of history, if such a person existed, comes from the Gospels, which are interwo...
michaelsherlock Religion 605 415294 June 19, 2012 at 8:30 am
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

Quote:Let me see if I can put it differently. If one is wondering where the stories of Jesus came from, it is probably distinctly and obviously unhelpful to assume his nonexistence, a position not he...
michaelsherlock Religion 605 415294 June 19, 2012 at 6:58 am
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

Quote:You have just made a positive claim.IE "Jesus was not a real person". That attracts the burden of proof;let's see yours. I agree. Quote:My position; I'm agnostic about the existence of an hi...
michaelsherlock Religion 605 415294 June 18, 2012 at 8:01 pm
    Thread: What Heaven is Like
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(June 17, 2012 at 7:14 am)Stimbo Wrote: What if angel-me wants to reject 'God'? I've never been an arselicker in this life, so any version of me that is forced to be one in the next life won't be me...
michaelsherlock Christianity 225 123706 June 17, 2012 at 9:56 am
    Thread: What Heaven is Like
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(June 17, 2012 at 2:44 am)Aiza Wrote: (June 14, 2012 at 11:23 pm)Bravo Wrote: Quick question about heaven: is there anyone who died and ended up in heaven only to be kicked out later and sent to h...
michaelsherlock Christianity 225 123706 June 17, 2012 at 5:52 am
    Thread: What Heaven is Like
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(June 13, 2012 at 11:54 pm)Taqiyya Mockingbird Wrote: (June 13, 2012 at 11:30 pm)Godschild Wrote: Young'n you are a disgrace to your generation, If you are older than me, I feel fucking sorry for ...
michaelsherlock Christianity 225 123706 June 14, 2012 at 12:33 am