RE: The Gospels....or Bullshit Makes The Flowers Grow
June 7, 2017 at 7:45 am
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2017 at 7:47 am by Fake Messiah.)
(June 5, 2017 at 11:02 am)Minimalist Wrote: It's fiction. They could have accused him of staging a threesome with the High Priest's daughter and Mary Magdalene. What would it matter?I'm just trying to show that even as a fiction it doesn't work, let alone when people try to tie it with reality.
(May 31, 2017 at 1:14 pm)Caligvla XXI Wrote: Sure, if you take the Aramaic gagulta "skull" and jack-shit it around and add an extra syllable you'll get gol goatha.
Well what do you think religious people do if not jack-shitting the Bible? (And it's not just that but it also ties it with Book of Jeremiah passage.) I mean take Nazarene or Nazoraean. In Greek Bible Mark calls Jesus "Jesus the Nazarene," while Matthew, John and Acts always call him "Jesus the Nazoraean." Though many bible translations often treat "Nazarene" and "Nazoraean" as interchangeable they mean completely different things: "Nazarene" can work to refer to a person from the village frequently called Nazara and "Nazoraean" means member of the sect of the Nazoreans.
Also it seems Mark never intended to make Nazareth as Jesus' hometown, despite the way many translations of the Bible read. In verses like Mark 2:1 he appears to have had Capernaum in mind as Jesus' home town.
So in spite the fact scholars today recognize it clearly did not mean "from Nazareth," you have stupid Christian pseudo-archaeologists that claim how thy found ancient Nazareth (that did not exist at that time) and even Jesus' house. Not much different then with Gol goatha and it's pseudo-archaeological findings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazarene_(title)
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
