(March 10, 2018 at 2:22 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(March 10, 2018 at 2:09 pm)chimp3 Wrote: The Romans are only the scapegoats and so was Judas. The plan all along was to have him tortured and murdered. Prophecies from the Old testament. Your own words "His willingness to die for us". The speech in the garden of Gesthemane. Jesus was not a victim of the Romans, he volunteered. The sick narrative that the Jews killed him led to millions of Jewish deaths. There is so much sickness in this myth.
CL, you might not be sadistic , but this is a sadistic story. Call it what you want.
Excellent Boy!
He didnt stop it from happening, as He could have, since He is God. That doesn't mean the people who did it weren't acting on free will and thus fully responsible for the evil deed. (It also doesn't mean that it's ok to kill other people after the fact who had nothing to do with it just because they are of the same religion as some of the people who did. This goes without saying.)
I don't see it as a story of sadism at all, and neither is that the intended Christian message of the story. The story is of self giving love, and dying for the sake of saving other people. You personally may take it as sadism, but that isn't the intended message being protrayed whatsoever.
Anyway, I'm glad you don't think we are sadistic. Thats good. I'm also glad I was able to clear up the misconception you had that Easter is the celebration of His death. Hopefully other things have been cleared up too.
Of course as the mythology goes one wouldn't stop it. Why stop a good con?
If the audience truly believes you really sawed the woman in half, despite the reality if you really did that they'd die. Yea, very easy to prey on human gullibility and emotions.
