Three pieces exploring this question.
First, secular humanist Don Wharton presents the NO case in:
A CERN-Level Proof of Mythicism
Then philosopher and religious studies academic Bill Cooke responds with the YES case in:
The Five Challenges Unanswered
Finally, Free Inquiry editor Ronald Lindsay adds his own perpective in:
perpective = perspective
From how he’s described in the bible, he seems the exact opposite of what most Christianity teaches.
No judgement and accepting of everyone regardless of any other considerations up to a point.
Can imagine he’d be disgusted with organised religion.
That’s if he’s real.
Cymek said:
From how he’s described in the bible, he seems the exact opposite of what most Christianity teaches.No judgement and accepting of everyone regardless of any other considerations up to a point.
Can imagine he’d be disgusted with organised religion.That’s if he’s real.
Trump loves Jesus because all the nuttuers vote for the man wh loves Jess but cats in every opposite way to the teachings of Jesus. Fabricated or not, Jesus was about doing good. That and tipping the merchants tables over.
Cats? What?
Michael V said:
Cats? What?
Should be acts I think
Cymek said:
Michael V said:
Cats? What?
Should be acts I think
Ah, yes. I see. Thanks.
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:
From how he’s described in the bible, he seems the exact opposite of what most Christianity teaches.No judgement and accepting of everyone regardless of any other considerations up to a point.
Can imagine he’d be disgusted with organised religion.That’s if he’s real.
Fabricated or not, Jesus was about doing good. That and tipping the merchants tables over.
He did offer a lot of bad advice.
Cymek said:
Michael V said:
Cats? What?
Should be acts I think
Yep one typo I missed.
fsm said:
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:
From how he’s described in the bible, he seems the exact opposite of what most Christianity teaches.No judgement and accepting of everyone regardless of any other considerations up to a point.
Can imagine he’d be disgusted with organised religion.That’s if he’s real.
Fabricated or not, Jesus was about doing good. That and tipping the merchants tables over.
He did offer a lot of bad advice.
I can’t say I read the bible very much.
I assume as it was a product of its day written by numerous people it included outdated ideals.
fsm said:
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:
From how he’s described in the bible, he seems the exact opposite of what most Christianity teaches.No judgement and accepting of everyone regardless of any other considerations up to a point.
Can imagine he’d be disgusted with organised religion.That’s if he’s real.
Fabricated or not, Jesus was about doing good. That and tipping the merchants tables over.
He did offer a lot of bad advice.
Nobody is perfect. Apart from Trump of course.
Cymek said:
fsm said:
roughbarked said:Fabricated or not, Jesus was about doing good. That and tipping the merchants tables over.
He did offer a lot of bad advice.
I can’t say I read the bible very much.
I assume as it was a product of its day written by numerous people it included outdated ideals.
Yes.
is anything anyone believes real
yes
Bubblecar said:
Three pieces exploring this question.First, secular humanist Don Wharton presents the NO case in:
A CERN-Level Proof of Mythicism
Then philosopher and religious studies academic Bill Cooke responds with the YES case in:
The Five Challenges Unanswered
Finally, Free Inquiry editor Ronald Lindsay adds his own perpective in:
Having read all three essays (each of which, BTW, are by atheist humanists) I have to agree with Cooke and Lindsay that the mythicist case is not anywhere near as strong as Wharton claims.
Nonetheless, I’m sure they’d all agree that whether or not a real human Jesus existed, he would have been nothing like the magical character of the Gospels.
>(each of which, BTW, are by atheist humanists)
Hmm, got that a bit garbled :)
all of which, BTW, are by atheist humanists
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Three pieces exploring this question.First, secular humanist Don Wharton presents the NO case in:
A CERN-Level Proof of Mythicism
Then philosopher and religious studies academic Bill Cooke responds with the YES case in:
The Five Challenges Unanswered
Finally, Free Inquiry editor Ronald Lindsay adds his own perpective in:
Having read all three essays (each of which, BTW, are by atheist humanists) I have to agree with Cooke and Lindsay that the mythicist case is not anywhere near as strong as Wharton claims.
Nonetheless, I’m sure they’d all agree that whether or not a real human Jesus existed, he would have been nothing like the magical character of the Gospels.
It is not an uncommon name. There’s heaps of Jesus Christs about.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Three pieces exploring this question.First, secular humanist Don Wharton presents the NO case in:
A CERN-Level Proof of Mythicism
Then philosopher and religious studies academic Bill Cooke responds with the YES case in:
The Five Challenges Unanswered
Finally, Free Inquiry editor Ronald Lindsay adds his own perpective in:
Having read all three essays (each of which, BTW, are by atheist humanists) I have to agree with Cooke and Lindsay that the mythicist case is not anywhere near as strong as Wharton claims.
Nonetheless, I’m sure they’d all agree that whether or not a real human Jesus existed, he would have been nothing like the magical character of the Gospels.
It is not an uncommon name. There’s heaps of Jesus Christs about.
If he existed, his name was Yeshua, in the Aramaic language spoken in the region.
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:Having read all three essays (each of which, BTW, are by atheist humanists) I have to agree with Cooke and Lindsay that the mythicist case is not anywhere near as strong as Wharton claims.
Nonetheless, I’m sure they’d all agree that whether or not a real human Jesus existed, he would have been nothing like the magical character of the Gospels.
It is not an uncommon name. There’s heaps of Jesus Christs about.
If he existed, his name was Yeshua, in the Aramaic language spoken in the region.
Yes and he could not have been white.
David Dalaithngu said, “If Jesus were real he’d be black and he wouldn’t be up in the sky looking over us, he’d be one of us”.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Three pieces exploring this question.First, secular humanist Don Wharton presents the NO case in:
A CERN-Level Proof of Mythicism
Then philosopher and religious studies academic Bill Cooke responds with the YES case in:
The Five Challenges Unanswered
Finally, Free Inquiry editor Ronald Lindsay adds his own perpective in:
Having read all three essays (each of which, BTW, are by atheist humanists) I have to agree with Cooke and Lindsay that the mythicist case is not anywhere near as strong as Wharton claims.
Nonetheless, I’m sure they’d all agree that whether or not a real human Jesus existed, he would have been nothing like the magical character of the Gospels.
Someone with both a Jesus fish and a ‘Magic Happens’ bumper sticker on the back of their car would beg to differ. Not me though: those people are nuts.