Sacrilege is something that does not concern me. The picture is hilarious, and embodies the Christ myth perfectly from a certain point of view. If you seriously believe the stories of the bible are
literally true, you're kind of dumb. Sorry.
I don't, nor did I say that I did. I said that my level of respect for people is low. That being said, I am open minded and give people the benefit of the doubt if they want to change my views. I was simply trying to say that I don't respect people until they earn it.
When you read the sub-forum title, what part of "Off-Topic" did you not understand?
Of course you don't want it brought up. Logic makes you feel uncomfortable because it undermines your worldview.
Obviously not. Nice try tho, I like how you say specific things and then say you don't believe the things you said. You're cute.
I did. ..and yes they fucking do deserve it.
To paraphrase Bill Maher:
The catholic church has a much longer, more illustrious, and more terrible history of institutional rape, executions, murder, and hatred than the nazi's. People seem to be concerned that the new pope is a nazi, when they should be concerned that this nazi guy is a catholic.
Even today, all over the world, catholic priests touch little boys, and various sects of various religions are full of similarly disturbing stories. It's funny how those who dost protest too much are often the very people who commit the most egregious crimes.
To be absolutely crystal clear, I think Jesus was an alright guy. He went around being revolutionary and espousing views that were at once transcendent and realistic. He was persecuted by those who were afraid of his message and the empowerment of the meek. There is not a lot that he is credited with saying that I disagree with. If he was alive today, I would probably follow his path. Whether or not he is the son of god, whether or not he ever claimed to be.. ..I have to cast dispersions, because there is absolutely no physical evidence of any such thing, and all writings about him were from LONG after his death.
I have said in this thread that I respect the morals of the stories of the bible and the various other holy books (except maybe the book of mormon, joe smith was a fruitcake.. ..lol.. ..oh, and dianetics, L.R.R. Hubbardkein is a great sci fi author, but people took his fruity little club WAY too seriously). I think there is a lot that people can learn from these stories, and I truly believe that the original authors wrote these stories to be taken with a grain of salt, not literally. The organizations that came after were involved with power struggles and corruption to a degree that has NEVER been equaled in any area ever.
I'm seriously not trying to diss you for your beliefs dude, and if you read my posts instead of skimming them, you would know that. Seriously, your personal relationship with a higher power is none of my business, and as an agnostic I do not claim to know what is right. Your view has an equal chance of being true as anyone elses as far as I'm concerned, and it very well may be that a cosmic jewish zombie who is his own father created existence. Who knows?