RE: Still a Christian - ask me questions/tell me about yourselves
November 3, 2017 at 10:36 am
(This post was last modified: November 3, 2017 at 10:38 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 3, 2017 at 10:16 am)Cyberman Wrote: I agree that the question is meaningless. That's what this whole digression has been about. People do morally good, bad and indifferent things for all sorts of reasons, including none, to themselves as well as others. The only reason the question comes up at all is to deliver by sleight of hand the implication that JC's posse must have known he was a real person.
Particularly galling since JC's posse don't seem to be any more real than JC. The stories of their deaths are grossly exaggerated. In the popular myth these people held their ground and died for it..but we know that from the earliest days and all through the latter christian persecutions of christians the accused routinely denounced everything from jesus to their godamned mother in a bid to escape the flames..for all the good it did them.
Heroic mythmaking rarely stands up to scrutiny at any level, at least not beyond the credulous looking for reasons to believe.
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