RE: who created christianity
December 6, 2010 at 5:10 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2010 at 5:11 pm by DeistPaladin.)
(December 6, 2010 at 4:27 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Well, Yahweh was just another Canaanite god before he got his big promotion in Jerusalem.
http://jot.sagepub.com/content/33/4/387.short
Probably humped the boss' daughter or something otherwise he'd have just been some shlep working in the mail room.
I've sometimes thought that Yahweh's ascension was a true rags-to-riches success story. He started off with such insignificance, being just one god in a pantheon belonging to an obscure tribe of routinely conquered people, only to pass up much more famous deities like Zeus, Odin and Ra (who also had much cooler names) to become the sole owner of the of the world's largest religion franchises.
(December 6, 2010 at 5:01 pm)16three-john Wrote:(December 6, 2010 at 4:32 pm)Chuck Wrote: That's NOT help. It's insulting presupposition of our credulity.[/align]
can you please explain what that means? i dont understand those words o.O haha
He's saying you must think we're really stupid that we'll believe anything that was posted on a Christian propaganda site.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
