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How can anyone accept Christianity

Mentalist

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..If they've actually studied theology?

About the ancient history of the original man-made legends, about the great heroes of the age? From Posiedon to Achilles to Dionysus to Simon Magus to Apollonius of Tyana?

Accepting Christianity, this offshoot of Judaism, as the one true faith when history shows us that it just happened to fight its way through the ages to emerge the most popular religion on luck alone is nothing short of insane. It's not like we can't trace it back, it was spread around the Roman Empire by St. Paul who founded Christian churches in Asia Minor and Greece until Constantine eventually made Christianity legal In the third century and the worship of multiple God's was outlawed. Quite a change of tune for Rome. Christianity, by sheer luck ousted the other religions, like the worship of Isis as the Mother Goddess and of Mithris and Simon Magus. (Magus was such a threat he gets slandered in the Bible twice!)

And that's not to mention the bastardization of the faith either. The earliest symbols of Christianity were the fish and the peacock. Don't see many of them in churches these days. Or what about the The Council of Nicea pick-and-mixing religious texts for mass consumption leaving the Apocraphra neatly by the wayside?


But it is the clear similarities with Jesus and the many other "Heroes" of the age and the lives they led that directly mirror the Christian tale that makes it so troubling that people so blindly accept it when they would obviously never accept those other legends, now would they?


Like the resurrection of Osiris that had played a prominent role in Eygptian religion for three millenia before Christianity raised it's head.

Like Poseidion walking on water.

Like Dionysus turning water into wine.

There were also multiple virgin births attributed to many different heroes of the time. Just about everything attributed to Christianity was stolen.

Ever heard the saying there are no new stories under the Sun?

I can't remember all the different parallels but there are so many.

For anyone willing to peruse the writings of ancient history, the miracles attributed to Jesus are not unique.

These stories were associated with nearly every God, sage, emperor, king, and teacher. You can find them in the writings of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, in the plays and biographies of the Greeks, and, most relevantly, within the Roman and Jewish histories of Livy, Plutarch, Tacitus, Suetonius, Josephus, and others.

The age of Jesus was not an age of critical reflection and remarkable religious acumen. It was an era filled with con artists, gullible believers, martyrs without a cause, and a miracle for every day of the fucking week. The tales of the gospels do not seem remarkable at all if you actually look at the era. I just find it amazing how many people can block critical thinking skills when it comes to religion.

I was raised Catholic. I went to Sunday School and attended Church twice a week. I didn't stop being a believer because I wanted to rebel; but the older I got the more ludicrous is became and the more I read the more I decided that it was a total crock of unprocessed shit. But no matter what one says, people are unable to accept that what they have chosen must somehow be untrue. It's a defense mechanism. For them to critically think about how ludicrous organized faith is (and I'm not talking about spirituality) is for their whole lives to basically become a lie and for the house of mental cards to come crashing down around them.

Scary, no?

It's still a wonder to me how many buy into organized religion whether it be Christianity, Islam, Judaism or any other. People really are wildly stupid.



I just felt like telling everyone that.

And reminding everyone that I can be found handing out leaflets at the Church of Ant&Dec (The one truer than all the other true faiths) every Tuesday.


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Like Paul deciding that the mid winter pagan festival would be a good time for Jesus to have been born? I could go on. Christianity is successful due to its opportunism.

But this is like waving a dinosaur bone in front of a creationist "it's just a test" or as the late great bill hicks said (i paraphrase) - "what kind of fucked up god buries dinosaur bones? has this guy got some sick sense of humour"
 
Because it provide answers to scary questions.

It fills in the yawning chasms, the dark holes in peoples lives.

It's easier to believe when you are staring death in the face.
 
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