RE: For People Who Think There Was No Historical Jesus
February 20, 2013 at 2:31 am
(This post was last modified: February 20, 2013 at 2:53 am by EGross.)
(February 19, 2013 at 5:45 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I'll bet you don't think "moses" is buried on Mt. Nebo, either?
Had they even gotten it into their heads to place a marker someplace, it would have been made a theme park by now. The Rabbi Meir baal HaNes "grave" has tacky vendor areas, a mulri-BBQ area for having that family meal by the grave, buy your black velvet painting of how maybe perhaps he might have looked like by the vending machine to buy a prayer book. Special "segulot" (good luck charms guarenteed to control god to get what you want) and incence are also available at a low, low, price.Had they made a marker for Moses, it would probably have included a "space mountain" styled rides, with Disney having bid on the animatronics.
Yeah, I'm jaded.
(February 19, 2013 at 6:30 pm)Confused Ape Wrote:(February 19, 2013 at 4:46 pm)EGross Wrote: Yeah, their use of Gamliel seems to be contradictory in nature.
It got even sillier when Christian tradition made him a secret Christian. The Eastern Orthodox Church even venerates him as a saint. I'm sure he'd have been thrilled to know that.
Well, on the Jewish side, weird things about Peter (he gave up that Jesus nonsense and wrote a prayer about repentance that some Jews attribute to Peter) and Paul (Gamliel sent him to turn Christianity into something so weird that only non-Jews would follow it, since there was a war coming) that it's probably fair! And while I cannot find a source via Google, I can attest that this kind of stuff does get passed around in the Yeshiva world!
Fair's fair!
“I've done everything the Bible says — even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!"— Ned Flanders
