The Early "Church"

[Chad32]

I don't know what sounds worse. The idea of an innocent person being brutally murdered, and acting like that's supposed to absolve people of their sins? Or the idea that it was all an act, and he didn't suffer, but we're still supposed to consider the event something worth worshiping him over.

Exactly my point. The early church was as mad as a box of frogs. Not just one box of frogs but many boxes of different frogs. Eusebionazi was simply the most ruthless box of frogs and we all are still paying for it.

Christians will often claim that there must be divine motivation behind all that. No. Eusebionazi simply smashed all the other boxes of frogs. With extreme prejudice.

OF course, it all flew apart again a thousand years later, but the differences between the thousands of modern day denominations are nothing compared to how amusingly wild it was 2000 years ago. Then again, look at the Westboro baptist arsehats. David Koresh. Jim Jones. That nutty tradition lives on in a much reduced form. But even those wingnuts had their own internal schisms. There is even a scientology schism, I shit you not.

IF there were some deity (nope) he/she/it/housecat is spectacularly crap at communication.

Yeah, there are still people today that think all homosexuals should be rounded up and executed. Because everyone loves a good old fashioned ethnic cleansing.

Sometimes I think most followers of Jesus must not have expected him to die. What else would explain the loathing of Judas and the jews? Why be angry at people who facilitated something that was supposed to be a good thing? We're supposed to be happy Jesus died for our sins, but we're supposed to hate the ones who got him killed?