RE: For People Who Think There Was No Historical Jesus
February 23, 2013 at 1:19 am
(This post was last modified: February 23, 2013 at 1:29 am by Minimalist.)
Quote:What do you mean? Are you saying the Christians before Theodosius's day had local Inquisitions and heretics were burned at the stake?
No, that shit came later. When xtians started persecuting pagans and/or heretics they created this whole "you started it" routine to excuse their own crimes.
Quote:I think it's common knowledge that Christianity developed over the centuries. What point are you trying to make here?
We do not know when the whole doctrine of holy horseshit was put together. Certainly the absurd concept of the "trinity" was not part of it until Tertullian invented it in the 3d century, for example.
One can have christians ( people awaiting an anointed one) without some schlepper named jesus auditioning for the role. The fact that the earliest Roman writers knew of xtians but never heard of "jesus" suggests that all the mary/joseph, pilate/nazareth shit...which "Paul" doesn't know about either, was later chrome plated onto the bumper of this bullshit religion.
Quote:If this is not what Minimalist was inferring, I apologize.
Close enough, E.
Quote:Christians want to see God. Agnostics can't see God. Atheists won't see God.
Atheists don't hallucinate.
The Kebra Nagast is a pile of medieval shit, too.
Quote:The Kebra Nagast concludes with a final prophecy that the power of Rome will be eclipsed by the power of Ethiopia, and describes how king Kaleb of Axum, will subdue the Jews living in Najran, and make his younger son Gabra Masqal his heir (chapter 117).
Really puts in on a par with bible "prophecies," I'd say.
