You don't get to pull stuff out of your arse and stick the theory label on it. Well, you can of course, but it won't sell round here. Two words for you, then we can talk:
Citation needed.
What's really telling about this whole crucifixion story is that without all the torture and blood sacrifice, the xtians have no basis for salvation to sell to the gullible and the desperate. To put it another way, if JC hadn't been flailed and nailed, then he didn't die for our sins. Thus, to borrow the viewpoint of a god-devised plan for saving humanity, the condemnation of the character was an essential part of it. You lot ought to be parading the Jewish people as heroes who saved the world from sin.
Citation needed.
(August 6, 2012 at 8:38 pm)catfish Wrote: What's quite telling that my theory may be true is the account that the Jews asked for a curse to put on them for condemning Yeshua to crucifixion. Do you honestly think a group of people would say such a thing?
What's really telling about this whole crucifixion story is that without all the torture and blood sacrifice, the xtians have no basis for salvation to sell to the gullible and the desperate. To put it another way, if JC hadn't been flailed and nailed, then he didn't die for our sins. Thus, to borrow the viewpoint of a god-devised plan for saving humanity, the condemnation of the character was an essential part of it. You lot ought to be parading the Jewish people as heroes who saved the world from sin.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
