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The Utter Irrelevance of the New Testament

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The Utter Irrelevance of the New Testament
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The Utter Irrelevance of the New Testament
May 16, 2015 at 11:53 am
This is a tribute thread.  Perhaps we can discuss not only the historical accuracy of the NT but also why anyone should give a flying fuck if people from 2000 years ago really believed what they wrote.
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RE: The Utter Irrelevance of the New Testament
May 16, 2015 at 11:57 am
I made a post awhile ago and i stated how much of the bible is ripped off of other mythologies and i listed every single mythology and even stated horus and even the epic of gilgamesh.
the bible is just a piece of a fiction that shouldn't be taken literally and this goes with all religious texts.
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RE: The Utter Irrelevance of the New Testament
May 16, 2015 at 12:20 pm
A collection of forged shit.  Designed to implement control over the population by a bunch of corrupt rulers and priests.  The recipe for religion since the agricultural revolution.
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RE: The Utter Irrelevance of the New Testament
May 16, 2015 at 12:29 pm
Well, if for nothing else, it's irrelevant for the splatter movie towards it's end.

Jesus sacrificing himself to himself to atone for sins, he himself introduced.

Utter pile of shit.
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RE: The Utter Irrelevance of the New Testament
May 16, 2015 at 12:43 pm
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RE: The Utter Irrelevance of the New Testament
May 16, 2015 at 12:46 pm
Wow, way to stick the landing there god boy.
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RE: The Utter Irrelevance of the New Testament
May 16, 2015 at 12:48 pm
I am the lord thy god and the best way to demonstrate this is to get executed as a criminal at a young age in an unimportant backwater,
which will somehow atone for all your sins, but don't sin.



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RE: The Utter Irrelevance of the New Testament
May 16, 2015 at 12:50 pm
The OP is a good idea.

Even more to the point is what does a book aimed at ancient peasants matter at all in the 21st century.  A pile of farm-based analogies and a lot of silly talk about eternal rewards and punishments.

Takes a first class asswipe to fall for such utter shit.
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RE: The Utter Irrelevance of the New Testament
May 16, 2015 at 1:02 pm
(May 16, 2015 at 12:48 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I am the lord thy god and the best way to demonstrate this is to get executed as a criminal at a young age in an unimportant backwater,
which will somehow atone for all your sins, but don't sin.

Thirty wasn't very young back then. I sometimes like to comment that he lived longer than a lot of people back then did, presumably without illness or injury, so dying when he did wasn't all that bad. Just the way he supposedly died.
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10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: The Utter Irrelevance of the New Testament
May 16, 2015 at 1:17 pm
And the christers won't like the thread topic, and I will note in spite of their visceral objections, we still find little NT gems like Paul reiterating the OT prohibition against women speaking in church/on religion, and we still can't get a straight answer why they (most of 'em anyhow ) know better than God and don't have to observe that stricture now.

Hell, even Shirley Phelps commits this heresy.
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