(January 13, 2015 at 4:06 pm)strawdawg Wrote:And he also said he seriously doubted jesus claimed to be god, and sometimes wondered if the world would've been better off if Jesus had never lived.(January 13, 2015 at 9:43 am)Alex K Wrote: I was assuming that you mean it metaphorically. I was just being wilfully literal in order to make the point that it is not clear for what exactly the metaphor it is supposed to be. This vague sense of feeling which I suspect you call "heart" is not a reliable arbiter of what is real and what is not.Even Einstein said, As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.
Yeah... you keep telling yourself that.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson