(April 6, 2017 at 1:51 pm)SteveII Wrote:(April 6, 2017 at 12:59 pm)Harry Nevis Wrote: Because it said so in a book? Guess what...?Well, if you are going to invent all these people, events, and conversations, at least the conspirators who wrote the NT had the decency to close the loop on this issue.
Funny how people of other religions fell for it but you didn't. That was a bullshit dodge still amounting to "I am right and everyone else is wrong".
Yes, we do think Jesus was invented after the fact. Yes we do know babies don't have magic powers or rise from the dead. Just like you accept there is no elephant god with multiple arms.
There is no "conspiracy". There were simply humans who either didn't know better, or didn't care and simply took part in mass marketing. That is how all religions start. In antiquity it was tribal and political both in polytheism and monotheism. Some truly believed the crap they were peddling, others saw it as an opportunity to be part of a new movement and gain attention.
There is no such thing as a perpetual motion machine, but if you really want to believe that, you will end up selling the idea as soon as it is sold to you. But at the same time you can be conned by someone who is doing just that, conning you to get attention. In all of religious history in our species history, those falsehoods are nether all con or all genuine, but a combo of both mostly due to the buyers selling it to the youth and in turn competing for social attention.
Now please don't accuse me of singling Christianity out. The Jamaica Rasta religion is a spin off of a mix of African Jewish/Catholic motifs. The Jews are a spin off of Canaanite polytheism. Buddhism is a spin off of older Hinduism. Islam is simply the third version of the God of Abraham.
