(July 17, 2017 at 11:29 am)mordant Wrote:(July 17, 2017 at 10:34 am)Dropship Wrote: whose side are atheists on, Jesus or the priests?No one atheist can speak for "atheists" as we're not an ideology. We have different reasons for not believing (for example)* that Jesus was god.
Not believing in Jesus means we can't be "against" him. He's imaginary. That's our issue. Not necessarily with the plotline or character development of the mythos.
In this particular case I am rooting for the Jesus character, except that of course his performance is uneven. He might be denouncing religious assholes in one scene, and irritably cursing a fig tree for not providing him fruit, despite that it's not even the season for figs, in the next scene. He speaks favorably of love and empathy and yet doesn't denounce slavery or affirm women as something more than chattel.
At the end of the day Jesus is a product of his times, leading from behind. Nothing terribly appealing here in the 21st century.
* Remember, atheists don't JUST disbelieve in YOUR deity. By definition they don't believe in ANY deity.
Indeed. All the deities the believers don't believe in (like Vaal, and Baneemy and Cloacina, and Cizin and Bi and Zeus) we don't believe in either, AND we add the one deity the believer believes in too.
We're more like the believers than the believers are comfortable with. They reject 99.999999999999% of all Gods, and atheists reject 100% of all Gods.
Not much of diffy poo is it ??
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
