Why I can't take the Gospels seriously.

[Brian37]

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When you say "Christians" that is also misleading. If Christians want to claim "Jesus was a Jew", then one can only rightfully claim that there was a Jew who simply started a new splinter sect of Hebrews which eventually became Christianity.

The more I think about all the world's religions, regardless of labels, the more I study them, I always find overlap in claims and motifs to surrounding and prior religions. 

Why is it both Buddhism, and Hinduism share motifs of Dharma, and reincarnation? For the same reason Christians attach the NT to the OT.

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Religion is no different than Coke vs Pepsi, Ford Vs Chevy. 

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Even the Rasta religion can be traced back to African/Catholic/Jewish traditions.

And as far as the Polytheistic transformation in Rome to Christian monotheism, that was not a divine cause. It was merely political expediency. Any Christian today that wants to argue Jesus was the hero for Rome and Europe because Roman polytheism fell and was replaced by Roman Catholicism, fail to realize that Rome's polytheistic brutality to dissent, was simply replaced by Catholic brutality after polytheism fell. Even today, I find it ironic that the Vatican still uses the Obelisk Caligula stole from Egypt as its symbol of peace in St Peter's Square.

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I don't think religion is caffeinated or carbonated.

Yea because water is sooooo new and not older than caffeine or carbonation.

Way to miss my point. 

Religion is a racket, just like any other form of social grouping be it politics, religion or business.

Every religion in the world in human history, is a result of surrounding and prior influences. Just like Coke and Pepsi compete. 

Religion is simply our species excuse to justify social pecking orders. Just like Ford And Chevy don't like the competition of the other.

The "homo"/great ape line of our human species existed long before homo sapiens. Humans existed long before even the first sedentary cities or concepts of farming. Humans existed long before the first written languages, or first written religions.

But one thing that has not changed in evolution, even outside our species, is evolutionary competition. Religion is merely a bullshit human invented placebo to justify social pecking orders. Just like Coke and Pepsi want to dominate each other. But all parties involved failing to understand water existed long before soda or caffeine.