Serious Query Regarding Jesus

[Orion3T]

I think you should get a life orion..This is a community and as such does NOT take itself THAT seriously. Only theists take religion seriously enough to murder, rape, mutilate, burn, vilify and scorn those who don't agree with them.

Go and do some serious research and stop being lazy by coming to an atheist forum to find out whether or not your belief in this Jesus character is worthy of your effort.

I rest my case.

Clearly you did not read most of my posts. Apparently didn't even look at the religious view I have on my profile.

I'm not a theist. I stated multiple times that I have serious doubts over the existence of Jesus. That's just not the question I asked, and those who didn't bother to read carefully were just counter-productive.

What I did get was evangelising from supposed Christians, and the usual escalations from their opposition.

Here's what I asked:

"I'd like to address this to those who are familiar with New Testament scripture, but are non-believers or, ideally, ex-believers.

Are there any serious considerations of the hypothesis as follows:

Apparently I phrased the question so poorly that readers thought I was a believer who was trying to convince people Jesus was real, or that Christians took it as an attack on their faith.

Both are wrong - I was looking for a serious discussion about plausible interpretations of a book that exists whether we atheists like it or not.

According to you though, this community isn't here for serious discussions, so I question why it exists at all.

I had hoped 'atheistforums.org' might be a good place for honest enquiry, sadly it has fallen far short of that mark. A serious let down I'm afraid.

I still say thanks to those who did read carefully and gave thoughtful and reasoned responses though.

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Thank you so much for your input.Always refreshing to have a different point of view. Let's run it up the flag pole and see if anyone salutes.

I can see you are about to take part in some robust discussions, with many free and frank exchanges.

Unfortunately certain members of this community seem intent on making serious questions and honest enquiry worthless.

I have no wish to denigrate those who read my posts carefully and responded accordingly, but I'm afraid my impression is that those people are outnumbered by those who don't.

I shall simply do as advised and carry out my research elsewhere.