RE: Why don't Christians pay Muslims the same respect ?
February 8, 2013 at 12:28 pm
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2013 at 12:35 pm by Confused Ape.)
(February 8, 2013 at 12:06 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: I think the comparison is that even though people both claimed sightings or whatnot, Elvis at least has reliable documentation of existing. Jesus does not.
Going by what Tacitus said it's likely that some weird cult started up in Judea after somebody was executed. I don't find this astonishing because people have claimed to see dead people in modern times and weird cults/religions have started in modern times.
UFO Religions
Quote:A UFO religion is any religion in which the existence of extraterrestrial (ET) entities operating unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are an element of belief. Typically, adherents of such religions believe the ETs to be interested in the welfare of humanity which either already is, or eventually will become, part of a preexisting ET civilization. Others may incorporate ETs into a more supernatural worldview in which the UFO occupants are more akin to angels than physical aliens; this distinction may be a little blurred within the overall subculture. These religions have their roots in the tropes of early science fiction (especially space opera) and weird fiction writings, in ufology, and in the subculture of UFO sightings and alien abduction stories. Raelism is the largest UFO religion in the world.[1]
The above all started in the 20th Century.
What I'm really puzzled about is why the Jewish followers of some weird cult in Judea wanted to tell Greek speaking Gentiles about it.
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(February 8, 2013 at 12:14 pm)catfish Wrote: I think it's important to note that TV and film is a relatively new invention and that when Yeshua supposedly came back, people didn't recognise him... .
We're told that the people who claimed to have seen him eventually believed it was him. This isn't to say that somebody couldn't have started a weird cult deliberately by claiming they'd seen an executed man after his death, of course. The executed man would need to be someone a bit newsworthy for Jews at the time otherwise everyone would have said "Who? I've never heard of him being thought of as a Messiah."
Where are the snake and mushroom smilies?