You will know them by their love

[reverendjeremiah]

http://onemansblog.com/2011/08/06/christ...book-page/

I thinly we should hang the leader of that (atheist) group on the cross with nails through their hands and feet, place a crown of thorns upon their head, RAM a spear through their side all after being whipped and beaten publicly! Just so they can endure what Christ dod so they understand the sacrifice behind what that cross symbolizes.

[thesummerqueen]

This has been circulating for some time.

The thing that baffles me the most is why Christians are so proud that their leader was so cruelly tormented.

[Epimethean]

They have to be proud: Otherwise, they'd have to admit he got his ass kicked royally. By playing the S&M spectrum, they can turn him into a hero for masochists everywhere. The funny thing is, they tend to be a bunch of sadists when they congregate.

[LastPoet]

What about the variety of cruel torture devices Xtians used on the ones that didn't conform to their religion? Taking into account the variety of torture devices that were used in many times, Id think people have suffered way more than jeebus.

[thesummerqueen]

I find that monotheists are generally more concerned with defacing the human body and obsessed with all of its lurid perversions rather than truly treating it like the temple they say pagans and heathens DON'T value it as.

Yes, let's mortify our flesh and remind ourselves that we are but mortal, rather than exalting in it and reveling in the short life of physical sensation and earthly pleasures we have.

"I sing the Body electric..." - Walt Whitman

[MrSkeptic]

I just hate the way it is assumed us athiests don't have a clue. As if our lack of belief in a god(s) makes us ignorant to what is going on in the world. In actuality its the other way round!

[RW_9]

A stone age insurrectionist got executed via common method of the time. That's pretty much all that can be said about the historical Jesus.

[reverendjeremiah]

A stone age insurrectionist got executed via common method of the time. That's pretty much all that can be said about the historical Jesus.

Actually that would be "Iron age insurrectionist", but otherwise most agreeable.

[Doubting Thomas]

Or was it bronze age?

[thesummerqueen]

2000 years ago an unwashed, hippie looking schmuck got executed according to the practices of the prevailing empire at the time. They didn't find him as holier-than-thou as his mother did...a common problem.