Is Jesus really worthy?

[Ravenshire]

The Catholics neatly sidestepped this one with the dogma of Immaculate Conception.

What the kathy-licks have failed to do is prove that a bastard who cannot even enter into the congregation of the lord, can be a worthy savior. Whether Mary was slathered with the same sin brush as the rest of us or no, christer teaching says bastards are!

PLEASE try to grasp the sincerity of my response.

I'm rather curious why atheists even care about these trivial biblical matters. I think it's fairly safe (at least at this point) in this thread to say that while I agree with discussing/debating real-world issues relating to fairy tales (like the imposition of religious BS onto world politics and Human needs issues etc.), I am just failing to grasp why so many people who don't necessarily believe in god are so interested in a casual discussion of the rhetorical literature of a bronze-age notion. Again, I understand and I agree with the real NEED to confront religious idiocy as it attempts to impose its BS upon the real world (at least the one most of us agree is 'real'). I do feel that these casual conversations about the bible may help to sharpen one's reasoning and counter-apologetic skills, but I suspect that in the long run, such saturation is unhealthy toward that end or any other beside frustration.

I mean no disrespect. I'm genuinely intrigued by what looks to me like an apparent infatuation.

These may seem to be "trivial biblical matters" but to some they are foundational principles of their faith. If they weren't trying to legislate their faith and jam their beliefs down our throats with the force of law, I wouldn't give shit about their myths. Since they are... Know thine enemy.