Why don't we know the date Jesus rose up from the dead?

[Minimalist]

Yes because fucking jesus may love you but they hate your ass.

Of course they do,because they're ignorant, stupid and fearful.

Far less personally stressful (and more insulting) to simply be indifferent. EG I have actually said to such people "I honestly could not not care less if you were to be run over by a passing tank,or spontaneously ignite in the middle of the local mall".

OK,I lie: I AM a little squeamish ,so would prefer such happy accidents not occur in my presence.

And no,I am not joking.

Whenever a busload of religious asswipes goes into a ravine I always take it as a sign that prayer is fucking worthless.

But then, I know that I'm a prick!

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You fucking rule Min, The entire story is a fabrication.

Of course it's a fabrication! Have you ever compared the story of "Jesus" with the story of the ancient Persian deity Mithra? They are eerily similar. http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen048.html

They were both born on December 25.

They both had 12 companions.

The both performed miracles.

They were both buried in a tomb and rose again after three days.

But this is all just a coincidence, right?

Uh-huh.

http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/Mithraism.html

Eclipsed as it was in later centuries by the faith of Christ, Mithraism – or rather, its Romanised form Sol Invictus – was the first ‘universal religion’ of the Greco-Roman world.

Mithraism anticipated Christianity in all major respects bar one, and enjoyed a ‘reign’ of at least five centuries. It peaked around the year 300 AD when it became the official religion of the empire. At that time, in every town and city, in every military garrison and outpost from Syria to the Scottish frontier, was to be found a Mithraeum and officiating priests of the cult.

Mithraism was the ‘religion of choice’ of fishermen, merchants, and in particular, the military who adopted Mithras rather like latter-day soldiers would adopt St. Michael or St. George – Mithras slew bulls, St George slew dragons! Mithraism waged – and lost – a two-hundred year battle with the upstart religion of Christ, into which much of its ritual, and many of its practitioners, were subsumed.

Fatally, Mithraism had excluded women entirely, causing well-heeled Roman matrons with a pious frame of mind to explore first Judaism, and then Christianity. Also, unlike Christianity, it made no special overtures towards the uneducated, downtrodden and marginal elements of society. It was a religion chosen by emperors, not slaves.