Or if you’re Jewish, happy Invisible Sky Demon Slaughters Innocent Children Day. Dead children, dead Messiah, it’s all in a day’s work I suppose if you’re an invisible sky demon.
Note that there is no evidence that a historical dude named “Jesus” ever existed. The only reference we have to his existence from non-Christian sources is some dude named Josephus, who was a Jew (a Pharisee to be exact) who decided in the aftermath of the Great Revolt of AD 66-AD 70 to write a history of Jewish wars and revolts of the past century. Roman records in Jerusalem had been pretty much destroyed during the revolt so he had no Roman records to use to mention Jesus, and he wasn’t even born until four years after Jesus was supposedly crucified, so he was not an eyewitness. He did mention some dude named Jesus in passing, but only as second-hand information and not in any detail. About all Josephus proves is that there were Christians in Judea in AD 75 and that these Christians claimed that there was a dude named Jesus the Christ that was the Messiah but had been executed by the Romans. Given that the Romans had just finished slaughtering over a million Jews (according to Josephus), you can imagine that a sect of Judaism that held that the Romans had even slaughtered the Messiah would have had some appeal to Jews of the day and would have been worth mentioning even by a member of a Jewish sect who believed nothing of the sort.
So anyhow, Josephus. Wasn’t even born when Jesus supposedly died. He wrote in Aramaic. We don’t have his original version, we have Greek and Hebrew translations that were hand-copied over the centuries by Christian monks and Jewish clergy and which are different from each other. And that’s supposed to be our proof that some dude named Jesus Christ actually lived. Yeah, right, pull the other flipper.
That said, I do believe that if Christians would follow the teachings of Jesus, regardless of whether Jesus was real or was just a made-up messiah figure to make their sect look good compared to other Jewish sects, the world would be a much better place. I’ve read the Gospels from front to back multiple times. Jesus was, like, this cool hippy dude, who preached peace and love and generosity towards the less fortunate and pursuit of the spiritual rather than pursuit of worldly riches. Nobody who actually read this stuff and believed it could be part of a religion of hatred and bigotry. Sadly, there’s a lot of people who claim to believe, but don’t, really. You can tell who they are because they claim that folks are going to Hell because of the way God made them, or that it’s fine and dandy to cut food stamps to the poor because the poors ought to just die already rather than bother us with their hunger, and so on and so forth. Those are the folks who claim to follow Jesus Christ, but don’t, really. I.e., they are liars and frauds and if there really was a Hell, they’d be well on their way to it no matter how much they professed that they’d accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior and washed their sins away in the Blood of the Lamb.
So it goes.
– Badtux the Religion Penguin
So funny they call themselves Christians yet still follow the dictates of the war g-d of the Hebrew-speakers.
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So the Romans killed this Jesus and then changed their name to Italians and took over the church to cover up their ‘crime’? Whoever said “It’s not the crime, it’s the cover up that gets you” has never been to the Vatican.
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