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Re: Some history on Paul and his Christianity
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Friday, March 2 2012, 13:15:08 (UTC)
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...it's really something. I mean the Church's contention that from the very beginning people flocked to Jesus whenever they heard his "story"....just HEARING it was enough for them to throw away the gods they and their parents and children had been born under and believed in, lived, married and died under and who had provided "meaning" and guidance and success and everything else that all religious folk say they get from god...but that simply by HEARING about a Jew, which they had never heard of before, from a desert they had also never heard of before, in a part of the world they didn't even know existed before, they threw away ALL their own culture and religion over is so absurd that ONLY a religion would think of such a whopper of a lie.

We would be just as likely to adopt the religion of invaders from Mars as Christianity, so foreign was it. People simply don't behave that way.

I mean the Church tells us of all the people who remained faithful to Jesus even when their children's necks were being slit or their own feet roasted over a fire but who refused to give up the religion of their forebears etc., but when they heard of this Jewish cult they IMMEDIATELY dumped everything.....come ON!

And like everything else about this Church, we have to take THEIR word for it since there is no historical data from 120 AD or 230 AD.....historical, unbiased, third party accounts only come much later, with the invasion of the New World, and then we learn the awful truth of how this "message" was spread...and it is sickening.

To believe the Church we must believe that many centuries ago, when essentially no one was looking or reporting, the Church won converts simply by relaying the "message" of the Gospels and Jesus...and it was all achieved with love and charity and Christian kindness....but, later, in the modern era, when the Church knew people were watching and reporting and publishing..and more and more people were literate and could read unbiased accounts of events going on clear on the other side of the planet, that then and ONLY then did the Church show itself at its worst...killing and raping and stealing people "into Christ".

But that's the real beauty of religion: it makes mush of human reason.



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