because they choose to not agree with you.....it happens a lot, I am sure.....
It's been obliterated by scholars for over a hundred years. We know that Jesus himself is most likely pure myth.
because they choose to not agree with you.....it happens a lot, I am sure.....
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
Chuck (10-20-2020), gfm7175 (10-16-2020), Into the Night (10-16-2020)
Most likely pure myth? Is that the same as saying all atheists are mostly like pure baby killers?
The reason 2 Billion people believe in Jesus and Christianity is the same reason why 2 Billion people believe in Muhammad and Islam or 500 million people believe in Buddha.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
I think the chances that Jesus didn't exist are about zero. Other than that, it rather depends what you mean by Christianity. What you have in the 'States is very far from that.
Frank Apisa (10-16-2020), Tranquillus in Exile (10-27-2020)
Can't speak about other countries, but in America going to church is more of a social activity than it is a worship one. As to why so many claim to be Christian yet do not attend church, or act even remotely as Jesus taught, is a question beyond my pay grade. I'd have to go with fear of death, hedging one's bets about an afterlife, tradition (they were brought up to say they are Christians), or just fitting in with the crowd. Even in the 21st century, non-Christians are seen by many as somehow immoral, lacking in ethics, untrustworthy.
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Iolo/Penderyn (10-16-2020)
The trouble is that it's difficult to enter into discussion when the terms are so hopelessly misunderstood by the trumper types who so often use such words as 'Christian'. It's very like the question of Marx: clearly nobody in his right mind supports what those weirdoes mean by Marxist, OR what they mean by Christian. If we read seriously and use whatever brain we can, however, the problem is a great deal more complex: Jesus and the Buddha are the 'religious' thinkers who have most to offer us today, just as Marx (and to some degree Darwin) are the Nineteenth Century thinkers who still have relevance.
Into the Night (10-16-2020)
PostmodernProphet (10-16-2020)
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