I'm pretty sure I would have. I never liked the idea of an innocent person being murdered in the place of the guilty. If the punishment is just, then a responsible adult shouldn't fear paying for their own misdeeds. It also helped that my church didn't focus much on fire and brimstone hell, so being burned alive for all eternity wasn't something that kept me up at night.
I would have gotten him down, and talked to him about convincing his dad to give up on this whole hell and blood sacrifice thing. As well as a bunch of other stuff. I know some christians feel that Jesus and Yahweh were the same person in different forms, but I believed they were separate people when I was a christian.
I would have gotten him down, and talked to him about convincing his dad to give up on this whole hell and blood sacrifice thing. As well as a bunch of other stuff. I know some christians feel that Jesus and Yahweh were the same person in different forms, but I believed they were separate people when I was a christian.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
