(July 25, 2014 at 3:59 pm)Purplundy Wrote:(July 25, 2014 at 3:47 pm)StealthySkeptic Wrote: Such as for instance Jesus saying that his followers couldn't take time to bury their dead parents?That was probably more of a Jesus short story (it was pretty short), and would be an interesting policy for the Church to adopt.
So far as this guy in the tale didn't have ailing family to take care of, it's not as if he would have hurt anybody by leaving rotting corpses in their deathbeds. I'd charge the Son of God with perhaps being insensitive. The man who came to Jesus was there for his parents when they died, wasn't he? Besides, the story's probably been mythicized. Was this guy so unlucky that both of his parents died at the same time?
Of course, this is not addressed to anyone with actual deceased family members.
A Jesus story mythicized? Say it ain't so.
Another way to look at this is that it didn't matter that the parents were buried because Jesus said he would be right back. A fact of scripture that modern Christians must ignore to keep their fantasy alive.
