RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
April 27, 2025 at 1:03 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2025 at 1:05 pm by Fake Messiah.)
People believe in Jesus because the myth was created to be believed in by people who made it out of things they wanted to believe in.
This reminds me of all the fake quotes people invented that famous people said but didn't, and yet people keep sharing them and believing in them. Take the famous fake Einstein quote "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Which was also prominently featured in the Big Bang Theory TV show.
And this is hardly his only popular fake quote attributed to Einstein. There are others like
‘Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.’
‘If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, we can’t help wondering what an empty desk indicates.’
‘Creativity is contagious.’
‘A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.’
‘Any fool can know. The point is to understand.’
Thus this is why people rather believe in myths like in Genesis instead of evolution because Genesis was created to be believed in (appealing to our emotions, psychology and maybe even the anatomy of the brain), while evolution is just the fact.
This reminds me of all the fake quotes people invented that famous people said but didn't, and yet people keep sharing them and believing in them. Take the famous fake Einstein quote "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Which was also prominently featured in the Big Bang Theory TV show.
And this is hardly his only popular fake quote attributed to Einstein. There are others like
‘Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.’
‘If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, we can’t help wondering what an empty desk indicates.’
‘Creativity is contagious.’
‘A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.’
‘Any fool can know. The point is to understand.’
Thus this is why people rather believe in myths like in Genesis instead of evolution because Genesis was created to be believed in (appealing to our emotions, psychology and maybe even the anatomy of the brain), while evolution is just the fact.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
