(September 22, 2014 at 2:10 pm)Rogue Wrote: There is evidence that he WAS. Most historians agree. There is a link if you want it.We tend to pay a lot of attention to self-proclaimed gods who predict the end of the world. Just imagine if there'd been network TV back in Jesus' day! He'd have been Marshall Applewhite before there was a Marshall Applewhite.
Whether or not he was a god is debatable. I think the evidence says; no.
I think the Biblical Jesus is written as a god who puts on his human costume and struts around, making the proles feel awfully inferior and annoying them with his constant "this human thing ain't so hard, how is it you guys keep fucking it up?" He's reminiscent of David Carradine's dissertation on Superman in Kill Bill Vol 2. Clark Kent is Superman's mocking portrayal of humanity, as seen by a man who can lift buildings and scorch your skin by staring hard enough. Jesus doesn't come to Earth to save humanity; he comes to Earth to bury us. "Salvation?" he laughs. "You can't even walk on water!"
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould