They found the tomb of Jesus. From a universal view the events narrated in the Bible about the birth, death, and supernatural resurrection of Jesus "Christ" did not happen very long ago. The profit Paul traversing the Roman Empire devoted his life to spreading the word of Christianity. Jesus, a flesh and blood man, was not known as Jesus Christ until almost 150 years after his crucifixion.
Jesus' crucifixion was horrifying, as all crucifixions were, but it hardly stood out from any other. The Roman Empire commonly crucified anyone they considered to be terrorist to the state. Jesus, like other Messiahs of the time, was a great man trying to free his people from Roman Imperialism, but there were dozens of self-proclaimed messiahs during the time. They all had similar claims, turned water into wine, fed 1,000 people with two fish and a loaf of bread, walked on water. It was a prophesized that a man would come and free and the Jews.
Now they have supposedly found the tomb of Jesus. Is it ridiculous? I think so. I think it is as ridiculous as the concept of Adam and Eve or the Immaculate Conception. You cannot prove any of this. Those tombs are more than 2,000 years old, how can you prove the identity of one person from that.
Lets consider the possibility that it is Jesus and that proves that he was not the Son of God, and then Christians have to find a new religion. Our social fabric has been woven on the thread of lies, but we can prevail. I say go with the flow. It’s blatantly obvious that China will be the supreme financial and military power of the world in the next 15 years. Everyone should become Buddhist. It will help us adapt to the new order.
Can everyone be Jewish? I don’t think that is the way to go. The Jews identify themselves as the underdog, the victim. In many ways they are, but if everyone is the victim then no one is the victim.
I cast my vote for Buddhism.
You really need to take a philosophy class or two!!
And that prove that my opinion opposes someone else's opinion? You are right, absolutely I need class to learn that.
I'm wonder from under which cowpile your theory found its meager existance.
That is a fact. Whether or not it is Jesus, who knows, but if it is then the entire christian religion is a lie. That is why you are pist and wrote that asshole comment.
I'm not angered. Frankly, I think it foolish to think that anyone would attempt to gamble their reputation on such a frivolous and insupportable thesis--that jesus' tomb and body be found. To whose DNA shall it be compared? The french families that claim divine lineage? Please.
I stated that it is hard to prove this claim in my original blog. Read it again if you do not believe me. It could be Jesus who am I to say whether it is or not. I am merely stating that it presents some very interesting social aspects if it turns out that the christian are completely wrong.
Where do you think people would turn for spiritual guidance? Buddhism, Jewish, Muslim, they are all good choices.
OK, let's say it is the tomb of Jesus, which I find to be a bit ridiculous myself. I don't personally think they can prove that it is any certain person after this long. But, no matter how much proof they have, the Christians are going to disbelieve it to the extent that they will not succumb and find new religion. Honestly, I think the Christians are the least-tolerant people out of any religion.
Wait, China is taking over the world? I didn't know World War III happened...
I admit that new order is a little dramatic, but China will be the overall super power of the world. They are winning financially and what they have to spend on a military budget is nothing compared to ours, but they get good results.
It will not take WWIII. We are going bankrupt, it will not be military action that hurts us. No country in the world could take us on the battlefield, but we hemmorage money.
I agree that christians are very narrow mined generally racist people and that nothing could convince them they are wrong. Not even if everyone agreed that is was Jesus and Paul was some crazy dude just wondering around.
ASAP.
It's time to cook up something new on Capitol Hill already.
I think most americans do not mind paying taxes. It is a small price to pay live in the US.
I just wish we could go back to the Pay-as-you-go days of Clinton.
I didn't mean to imply that it's time to change the tax structure because people don't like to pay taxes. I was responding to the comment about China "winning financially." I don't think I'll dignify the Clinton statement. Ugh.
Other countries are winning financially because of our oppressive tax system. It forces companies out of the country. If we collected taxes in an entirely different way, there would be more incentive for American companies to bring their jobs back here, and there would also be an incentive for other countries like China to build plants here and bring some jobs.
What did clinton ever do that was wrong?
It's a little hard to know where to start on that one.
So many wrongs, so little room on the blog.
Everyone was paying higher taxes (including the poor), terrorists were plotting against us (unopposed by us), more Americans were on Welfare, Unemployment was up, Our military (myself included) was making less than poverty wages. I could go on, without even talking about his raping several women or his lying under oath.
you sound like a fox news infomercial. Do you believe all that?
It pains me to see people fall victim to those half truths, but its a free country.
Which part of what I said was a half-truth?
The statistics show that unemployment and welfare were both up during his presidency, That's not a news report, that's economic statistics. It's not a half-truth, and it's not a matter of whether or not you believe it.
I was paying higher taxes under Clinton. You don't have to believe that for it to be true. Also, I was in the Military during the last couple years of him being in office. I was making just under the federal poverty level. When W got into office, I paid lower taxes and got twice the pay-raises (to actually try to keep up with inflation) each remaining year I was in the Military.
And the lying under oath? umm...That's what he got impeached for, so if you don't believe that, it's on you.
And there are still rape victims that accused him, and he nor Hillary ever denied it, they just paid them off not to sue.
Those are all facts. I don't know where you get half-truths from what I said. I didn't say anything that is not public, verifiable information. I'd never even watched Fox News prior to learning and experiencing these things.
The great thing about the truth is that even though YOU don't believe it, it doesn't make it any less true.
I agree that President Clinton had a lot of things to fix after 4 years of bush and 8 years of reagan's economics.
It was President Clinton that started giving the military annual raisies. And honestly most troops are still under the national poverty level. Most people with families of rank E5 and below qualify for welfare. Speaking of welfare President Clinton was the one that put a limit on how long someone could collect those benefits.
Sure maybe we were paying higher taxes back then, but our national deficit was down, we had a budget surplus and by the end of his presidency unemployment was low and the country was in great shape.
Rape victims, maybe, why would they wait so long to bring it up. Probably the smell of money, but that is just a guess.
Lying under oath. What about Weapons of Mass Destruction? Where are those. President Clinton may have lied about a blowjob but bush is directly responsible for the deaths of US soldiers and Iraqi civilians.
The great thing about truth is its still the truth whether you believe it or not. Right!
You said:
"Jesus, a flesh and blood man, was not known as Jesus Christ until almost 150 years after his crucifixion."
St. Paul used the term 'Jesus Christ' in all of the writings of his epistles, which date from the 50s and 60s A.D. The apostles preached a ressurected 'Jesus Christ' from the earliest times that even Emporer Nero decided to attack against by the 60s. Just want to clear up the facts; most people don't argue them anymore however.
Does your programming have any other conditioned responses for me. Or do you just choose to believe the lies your are told.
Hey I understand its your comfort zone. I know I have an averages sized dick but when my wife tells me its big I choose to believe her. It makes me feel good about myself.
Just like choosing to believe we are being cared for by a spiritual parent figure.
I get it!!!
Does your programming have any other conditioned responses for me. Or do you just choose to believe the lies your are told.
Hey I understand its your comfort zone. I know I have an averages sized dick but when my wife tells me its big I choose to believe her. It makes me feel good about myself.
Just like choosing to believe we are being cared for by a spiritual parent figure.
I get it!!!