What if Jesus was an atheist?

[Czeckerz]

What if he realized what an organized religion that taught good morals (based on his time period) could do to a society that needed improvement and hope? Perhaps he decided that he would sacrifice himself in hopes that what he taught appealed to people and that it would help society improve. Maybe he never meant for it to stick around for so long or for people to take it so seriously but rather have it be a reason to become better people.

[Stevie]

I aint waiting for some santa claus daddy from the sky to save me

[Darwinian]

Theism is the belief in a god or gods. Presumably Jesus absolutely knew that there was a god thus rendering belief meaningless.

As Jesus did not believe in God his position cannot satisfy the term 'theist'. Anyone who is not a theist must be the opposite and the term for that is atheist.

So, Jesus was an atheist as he had no belief or faith in the existence of a god or gods.

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

Well, considering that we know so little (if anything) about the authentic Jesus (supposing he existed), I'm afraid it's an impossible to answer question.

Other relevant questions one might ask about Jesus:

What if Jesus was a llama?
What if Jesus was an alien?
What if Jesus was a rodeo clown?
What if Jesus was a Terminator?
What if Jesus was a submarine captain?
What if Jesus was a student driver instructor?
What if Jesus was leaping tall pyramids in a single bound?
etc.

[Napoléon]

What if he realized what an organized religion that taught good morals (based on his time period) could do to a society that needed improvement and hope? Perhaps he decided that he would sacrifice himself in hopes that what he taught appealed to people and that it would help society improve. Maybe he never meant for it to stick around for so long or for people to take it so seriously but rather have it be a reason to become better people.

If he existed, and if he thought that, then he's a douche.

Anyone who thinks the crusades, the spanish inquisition, the thousands of years of slaughter and death, the discrimination, the control of personal freedoms, the having to go to church on sunday etc that comes from religion, is somehow good. They need their fucking head checked.

[Stevie]

What if he realized what an organized religion that taught good morals (based on his time period) could do to a society that needed improvement and hope? Perhaps he decided that he would sacrifice himself in hopes that what he taught appealed to people and that it would help society improve. Maybe he never meant for it to stick around for so long or for people to take it so seriously but rather have it be a reason to become better people.

If he existed, and if he thought that, then he's a douche.

Anyone who thinks the crusades, the spanish inquisition, the thousands of years of slaughter and death, the discrimination, the control of personal freedoms, the having to go to church on sunday etc that comes from religion, is somehow good. They need their fucking head checked.

He sinned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdB78tqstXI

[Darth]

What if Jesus was a Terminator?

Then he was a malfunctioning prototype model.
At least when the terminator says that it will be back, it does so in a timely manner.


Skynet: 1, Jesus: 0

[Drich]

What if Jesus was a Terminator?

Hence His Promise To Be Back!!!

It all makes sense now

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What if Jesus was a Terminator?

Then he was a malfunctioning prototype model.
At least when the terminator says that it will be back, it does so in a timely manner.


Skynet: 1, Jesus: 0

Awe too lttle too late.

[Anomalocaris]

Well, considering that we know so little (if anything) about the authentic Jesus (supposing he existed), I'm afraid it's an impossible to answer question.

Other relevant questions one might ask about Jesus:

What if Jesus was a llama?
What if Jesus was an alien?
What if Jesus was a rodeo clown?
What if Jesus was a Terminator?
What if Jesus was a submarine captain?
What if Jesus was a student driver instructor?
What if Jesus was leaping tall pyramids in a single bound?
etc.

I think we know enough to know it was exceedingly unlikely that the low class, almost certainly illiterate Jesus could have been worldly enough, intelligent enough to penetrate the soup of fractionated superstitionsrunning through the Jewish world at the time. He was almost certainly a Jew who in his mind wholly embraced Judism, and seeking answers from what seemed to him to have been the framework of Judism.

[Mystic]

What if:

It changes nothing.