HappyCetacean
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Wow. For a drunk chick you certainly can philosophise with the best of them ...
Oh. So you don't deny Christ, you just think He was a perennial liar.
Yeah, people have told me that before. I philosophize the most when I am almost out of it. But I also produce posts like this that make sense when I am writing them, but maybe not so much when I re-read them the next day:
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52939
As for Christ, why would I think he was a liar? He was probably a real human, an itinerant preacher who taught people some good things, and then was crucified by the Roman authorities because he was considered a troublemaker. Then his little band of followers did some good marketing and good mythologizing by incorporating currently existing stories into the the mythology of Jesus. They spread these stories to others as an inclusive group that emphasized fellowship, love, and treating others well. And it takes off from there.
So no, I don't think Jesus was a liar, but maybe his followers were a little bendy with the truth, like most good marketers are. Eventually those little tales grew into dogma, orthodoxy, and our modern Christian religious tradition that requires one to believe that a guy was born from a virgin mother, and after being killed, was resurrected, and flew up to heaven to be with his father, who was God and also himself.
Do you think a rational person would buy into this stuff if they had not been indoctrinated into this belief when they were younger and did not have all of their higher mental faculties developed yet?
I find it hard to believe.