(October 9, 2013 at 3:25 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: If Jesus had been invented it then would have gone something like this.
"Good news Christ has risen!"
"Who?"
"Jesus Christ was executed a few years and rose again?"
"No I don't remember him around these here parts"
"Perhaps you just forgot about him. it was about 20 years ago?"
"No I think I would remember him."
And that would have killed the movement in it's tracks.
Would that it were. Unfortunately, as $cientology, 9/11 Truthers and Moon Hoax Believers demonstrate, people are often desperate enough to cling onto anything that appeals to their sense of self-aggrandisement and desire to belong to some exclusive in-crowd.
As a for instance, consider how many people will tell you that the USA was founded as a xtain nation and as evidence toss you the 'One Nation Under God' thing. Then do a little digging and find out how recent a tradition that actually is.
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.'
