RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon?
April 16, 2020 at 11:30 am
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2020 at 11:39 am by The Grand Nudger.)
New magic book is an eschatological treatise on christian dogma, not a biography.
The notion of christianity as a historic event has been abandoned for a long time among people who attempt to understand or explain religions as cultural phenomena. Generously, this doesn't have to be due to the fact that it wasn't a historic event, only that the cultural phenomena is what we're presented with today. It would be impossible to understand those christianities in context of whatever alleged or real event happened 2k years ago - it's no longer relevant to christian belief...if it ever was.
It's only relevant to christians belief's about their beliefs.
There is no singular "historic jesus" to consider..not even to determine whether or not he was a loon. That jesus is not described by new magic book..and if he did exist, and was a loon, he just wasn't enough of a loon for anyone to notice. No one alive then or today is basing their beliefs on the ramblings of no one, that they've never heard about.
The notion of christianity as a historic event has been abandoned for a long time among people who attempt to understand or explain religions as cultural phenomena. Generously, this doesn't have to be due to the fact that it wasn't a historic event, only that the cultural phenomena is what we're presented with today. It would be impossible to understand those christianities in context of whatever alleged or real event happened 2k years ago - it's no longer relevant to christian belief...if it ever was.
It's only relevant to christians belief's about their beliefs.
There is no singular "historic jesus" to consider..not even to determine whether or not he was a loon. That jesus is not described by new magic book..and if he did exist, and was a loon, he just wasn't enough of a loon for anyone to notice. No one alive then or today is basing their beliefs on the ramblings of no one, that they've never heard about.
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