Unconventional Religion

[genkaus]

Waving around the word 'lying' isn't going to hold me back.

It seems to have held you back by a week.

"Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up."
This is a parable Jesus told. A farmer didn't sow his seed that day in Galilee to anyone's knowledge. Is it a lie, too?

I don't see the words today and here in the 'parable' - so no, it may not be a lie. A person lies in if he knowingly contradicts what he believes to be true without indicating any intention of speaking hypothetically. Which is why, in that case, your Jesus lied.

A simplistic definition of truth limits one from indentifying ultimate truths by trapping oneself in hard fact, which should stay in the lab and has no place in life's bigger questions.

This kind of bullshit doesn't work here. Go teach your mind-corruptig faith somewhere else. The same truth that's useful in labs is useful for answering life's bigger questions.

That said, salvation, Epicurus' pleasure, is found beyond simply doing what your told and naturally acquiring it.

Salvation and Epicurus' pleasure are two very different things - opposite in fact, given that Epicurus was a materialist. The latter has no conditions of acquirement and the former cannot be acquired naturally - according to your theory.