(October 18, 2017 at 7:30 pm)Whateverist Wrote: For Hammy who thinks we'd better off closing the forums to theists except the poop lady and her buddy: one of the best posts from a theist ever in my experience on these forums from a few years ago.
(July 4, 2014 at 1:48 am)Purplundy Wrote: No, you're making just enough out of this, and that is an important question that I need to answer.
I know that a Jesus figure did exist and certain people wrote about him.
Did he rise from the dead? I don't know, he hasn't proven that he did, to me anyways.
Worst case scenario: He didn't. His body decomposed and is humus on its way to the planet's core. That would be disappointing; he seemed like such a nice guy. But it has no effect on my life; the Christian practice of loving your neighbor is not affected by whether or not a Jew walked outside of a cave on Sunday morning. That doesn't even mean that what he taught was false; I'd still agree that we need to help the poor for reasons other than, "Jesus said so." To think otherwise would be an appeal to hypocrisy.
When I talk about Biblical events, I don't mean to say whether or not they happened. I'm just acknowledging that that is what somebody wrote down in a book.
I felt brain cells dying while reading that. I hope it was the weak ones.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.