(February 20, 2013 at 4:31 pm)ronedee Wrote: With all the debate that Christianity was invented by some religious fanatics that wanted to control the world.... Aren't you wondering just why they created such an ordinary character as Jesus?
Wouldn't a sword wielding dynamo, on a winged horse suit a conqueroring saviour much better, in your atheistic opinions? Really now...what harm can a poor, lovable carpenter from Nazareth afford you, or anyone else for-that-matter?
I think you are selling that godling a bit short.
Exorcizing thousands of demons in a day? Casting devils into pigs and forcing them to leap off of cliffs? Disrupting a Temple event by trashing all of the trading going on and being the tough guy when such an act could have gotten his throat slashed? Killing a fig tree with his magic stare? And then picking up a severed ear and sticking it back on as part of a sword battle?
And so much more! Oh yeah, and he is a god that talks to himself a lot. ("Father...")
So don't play the "poor little carpenter meek and mild" card. It doesn't fly when you create a god.
“I've done everything the Bible says — even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!"— Ned Flanders