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The Abrahamic Gods make no sense. They are delusions wrapped in contradictions. Omnipotence verses omnigoodness is similar to the All Powerful force against the Immovable Object. It is logical bollocks. The Cathars tried to make sense of it. They used the Bible. The God of the O.T. is clearly...

I agree with you Brother Mike. Christianity was a group of tens of different Jesus Cults in the first two centuries CE. It was not even called Christianity in the First Century. How can I define it? I am giving an opinion. Many different cults arose after the death of Jesus of Nazareth. Most...

The "loving" relationship of Jesus to Mary Magdala does not prove marriage or heterosexual love producing offspring. It seems that the issue was important to those among his disciples. With 12 apostles, why would Jesus consider John to be his "beloved" ahead of the other 11 men? Mary makes more...

I could add another Jesus or Yeshua who lived a century and a half earlier than Jesus of Nazareth. He was mentioned in the Torah as living in the time of temporary independence of Israel following the revolt of the Maccabees. This Jesus was called Ben Pacheria. He preached a moral message...

Serv: You and I are the Yin and the Yang, eh? Which one of us is which?:) Amergin

Those crucified were hanging by the arms. Abdominal structures were pulling down with gravity preventing effective pulmonary (Lung) expulsion of air. There was congestive heart failure. Roman soldiers do not see CHF. Fluid accumulates in the legs and in the ABDOMEN. This stretches of peritoneum...

Serv; Spot On! Amergin

Good answer. It is the School of existence all being an illusion or delusion. Amergin

Nazi Psychopaths are alive and recruiting people across the United State, Britain, France, Sweden, and Germany. Ron Paul is not the only Nazi over there. The Tea Party is in my opinion a copy of Nazism. They are undoubtedly racist, with President Obama's ethnicity being the only real issue of...

I know that I am. I know that I have consciousness and self-awareness. I know that I can think. I know that I can believe, not believe, or deny. I believe in current scientific evidence: 1. We are all made of energy and matter. 2. Our atoms constructed in the cores of Supermassive stars. 3...

I agree that reading the gospels literally contradicts almost all of traditional Trinity Christianity. You are right; they are not consistent and self-contradictory almost as much as the Old Testament. OT says everyone dies and nobody dies. The O.T. can be explained by the incorporation of old...

Re: Intuitive Morality from evolution Many religions such as Christianity and Judaism have moral codes that are incomplete. They are lacking in moral principles that most modern atheists support. I would re-write the Commandments of Moses. 1. Thou may have any or no gods before thee. 2. Thou...

I do not feel that my goal in life is to feel superior. I am not superior to anyone. Every other human being is descended from a common group of bipedal hominids 3 million years ago. I do not claim perfect morality. I have sinned in many ways. I have also done many things that (to me) are...

It sounds credible to me, from my reading. My impression is that many Christians actually follow the teachings of Jesus. However, many who fall into the Christian Fundamentalist or Evangelical mind-set, deliberately ignore the teachings of Jesus. The focus on worship of a man-made god, Jesus for...

I agree wil. Revelation is a strange book. It depicts a second Jesus. The Neo-Jesus is not the compassionate, loving, forgiving, healing, and feeding the poor, Jesus of Nazareth. Revelations depict a cruel, genocidal Jesus with an army of killer angels following a Cosmic Genghis Khan, Attila the...

Scriptural spin-doctors look at references to the "Beloved Disciple or Apostle" of Jesus. There are two problems. If John was the beloved apostle of Jesus, how did Jesus feel about the other male apostles? Did he not love (in the non-sexual way) the 11 male apostles? Da Vinci hints at this...

Serv, I see the point that you are making, and it has certain merit. It reminds me of the Albigensians (Cathars and Bogomils) who were called Heretics by the OC Churches. I read that many of those ideas came from Crusaders and other Christians trading in the Crusader states with Muslim...

Re: The Controversial Death of Jesus Jesus was crucified in the middle of the day or afternoon. He was taken down before sunset. It means his time on the cross may have been anywhere from one to five hours. Victims of crucifixion often lingered an agonising death on the cross for up to three...

If Jesus was executed for posing as God (which he did not), he would have been stoned to death and his body hung on a tree as a warning to blasphemers or heretics. However, Jesus was supposedly crucified, which suggest he broke a Roman law. Rome officially tolerated all of the hundreds of...

What is the divine name? Jesus possibly believed in the divine JHWY or El. Jews regarded Yeshua as prophet but not a god. I agree that Jesus preached LOVE. However, the established Orthodox Christian Church of Constantine and Theodosius II did not demonstrate much love but persecution, torture...