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Old 12-23-2006, 10:04 PM
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I don't know what to call people who believe that a Jewish guy's life and death changed the course of mankind. "Stupid" comes to mind, but I'm not sure that's comprehensive enough.

I don't even know how to begin to categorize a belief system that continues to take hold even though (a) the central tenets of the faith are well-documented to have existed long before Jesus (virgin birth, 12 disciples, resurrection) and (b) the religion's history of expanding is well documented to have occurred through conquest and adapting native pagan traditions (Christmas tree, anyone?) and (c) the history of Church councils and inventing "dogma" is well-documented

Believing all that does not just require stupidity, it actually requires that part of your brain is non-functional.
According to this, here is a very small sampling of brainless idiots:
Newton
Leibniz
Euler
Riemann
Weierstrass
Cauchy
Bolzano
Cantor(!converted to Protestantism?!)
Boole

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be proud of being included in this group of idiots!



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Old 12-23-2006, 10:58 PM
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the first two sentences of the quote are insulting, even to me. a jewish guy, or any guy, could have an impact that changes the course of history.

the belief system stuff is not my argument, but I think something written with the intent to insult should be a lot more careful in how it is worded.
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Whatever one thinks of religion, the gentleman in question's birth did in fact change the course of the history of the world, many, many times over. In fact, his was the most consequential life ever to have been lived. And that's even if you don't think he was God.
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I don't know what to call people who believe that a Jewish guy's life and death changed the course of mankind. "Stupid" comes to mind, but I'm not sure that's comprehensive enough.

I don't even know how to begin to categorize a belief system that continues to take hold even though (a) the central tenets of the faith are well-documented to have existed long before Jesus (virgin birth, 12 disciples, resurrection) and (b) the religion's history of expanding is well documented to have occurred through conquest and adapting native pagan traditions (Christmas tree, anyone?) and (c) the history of Church councils and inventing "dogma" is well-documented

Believing all that does not just require stupidity, it actually requires that part of your brain is non-functional.
According to this, here is a very small sampling of brainless idiots:
Newton
Leibniz
Euler
Riemann
Weierstrass
Cauchy
Bolzano
Cantor(!converted to Protestantism?!)
Boole

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be proud of being included in this group of idiots!



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Whatever one thinks of religion, the gentleman in question's birth did in fact change the course of the history of the world, many, many times over. In fact, his was the most consequential life ever to have been lived. And that's even if you don't think he was God.
He did change the course of history. (Well, even that can be debated; Paul and Constantine were probably far more influential.)

I should have written "change man's spiritual destiny" or some other phrase to capture the ludicrous idea that redemption (whatever that means) was made possible through the death and "resurrection" of a Jewish man.

Speaking of ludicrous, (Ludacris?) Chris Bridges has as much to do with redemption as Jesus. So it is time for me to Roll Out.

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Whatever one thinks of religion, the gentleman in question's birth did in fact change the course of the history of the world, many, many times over. In fact, his was the most consequential life ever to have been lived. And that's even if you don't think he was God.
He did change the course of history. (Well, even that can be debated; Paul and Constantine were probably far more influential.)
So tomorrow millions will celebrate Constantinemas?
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