RE: Jesus did not rise from the dead -- My debate opening statement.
January 14, 2017 at 5:32 pm
(This post was last modified: January 14, 2017 at 5:37 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
My 2cents...the misfortune was in requiring some pedigree, when this whole christianity shit got started.......that they felt compelled to take an older myth from an ignorant time and affix it to what was, essentially, a popularizing tale for hellenic stoicism (obviously tailored to the peculiar audience which received it).
The effect of that, today and in the past, is that we've got totally -not- batshit crazy dumbasses™ focusing on the preamble to the detriment of the message. The overarching "don't be a dick" narrative turns into the very reason that evangelical wastes of space engage in the asshattery they've become so well known for.
Meanwhile, stoicism without all the christ and yahweh mumbo jumbo is alive and well and not at all implicated in any of that bullshit - just as an example that it could have gone another way and didn;t -have- to result in what it did...the only difference between the two being the shit thumpers pound out all day erryday....and that, to me, suggests which part of the narrative is the problem.
The effect of that, today and in the past, is that we've got totally -not- batshit crazy dumbasses™ focusing on the preamble to the detriment of the message. The overarching "don't be a dick" narrative turns into the very reason that evangelical wastes of space engage in the asshattery they've become so well known for.
Meanwhile, stoicism without all the christ and yahweh mumbo jumbo is alive and well and not at all implicated in any of that bullshit - just as an example that it could have gone another way and didn;t -have- to result in what it did...the only difference between the two being the shit thumpers pound out all day erryday....and that, to me, suggests which part of the narrative is the problem.
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