by Dame Ruth, Chief Executive Elitist D.
Member since:
August 1, 2006

RESURRECTION SUNDAY: NOW I Understand!

May 10, 2009 03:28 PM EDT
views: 68 | comments: 18

This was first published last September.  Not much readership, but a low rating, as was to be expected.  Anxious to see what happens this time around.

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Finally, a clear explanation of christianity:
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Comments: 18

Peter Joseph Swanson May 10, 2009, 3:46pm EDT
ha ha - you put it in a nutshell. Sort of. Actually God created humans to be more like lap dogs. Then the Devil got us to sin (by eating some banned tree fruit!!!) and we became more like we think of humans - more human. And then the mythology goes on and on, loopy for sure, from there.
Sarah A. Hopes for More TOS Enforcement May 10, 2009, 3:47pm EDT
Well, that just about sums it up for me... Though I liked the Butter Jesus that was floating around a day or two ago...

I have only Tom Wait's Chocolate Jesus to see me through my Sundays.. (or, as he points out, on hot days, Sundaes...)
My how this would save many a youngling from enduring years of dissecting biblical dogma in dreary little chruch rooms at the feet of adults with questionable sensibilities~purrfect summation~

*like for Sarah, TW's Chocolate Jesus does me just fine Sunday or not~
Peter Joseph Swanson May 10, 2009, 3:58pm EDT
Giving children candy at the Christmas Sunday School pageant always helps them believe.
Bert B. May 10, 2009, 4:06pm EDT
If most believing Christians would actually read the Bible, the entirety of it, and see all the contradictions, absurdities, incredible cruelty, intolerance, sexism...I could go on and on...I think their faith would be shattered.
Instead, most of them are IGNORANT of their own religion. They listen to the carefully selected sound bites, often incredibly distorted, that their priests and pastors feed to them, and they think they are being good Christians.
If you have some time, read this essay from Humanist magazine that explains the problem much better than I can.
Joyce ("Site Cheshire Kitteh") L. May 10, 2009, 7:01pm EDT
Bert - the zealots claim they have - and there are no contradictions in the bible. Of course, they only extrapolate on the stuff they like...

A bit of study would show that the worlds major religions all have similar core beliefs. So, since they cant all be right, which one is?
That's exactly what I thought.

I've never claimed to understand it.
La Lady Lisa Westerfield May 10, 2009, 10:35pm EDT
Dame Ruth, I was trying to get that damn rating to work and for a split second I thought I may have rated this lower than a ten. Thankfully, it came out correctly. On a series note, I tend to think of Jesus as two entities. One is the cool Christ who was a teacher and talked about loving people. The second is a Christ that others have made up – kind of like a Zeus substitute. Since there is no indication that Jesus said he was the ‘son of God’ while he was alive I think his message has been lost tenfold over the whole deification.
sharon SugarMomma is a wise woman, May 10, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
I like your explanation Dame.

I've always thought that the Christ was an example of a revolutionary. Dare I say, socialist - perish the thought.

If the "Christians" had any inkling of the screwed up messages they receive, we'd never have organized religion.

Then again, most of them aren't exactly mental giants, are they?
Bert B. May 10, 2009, 11:07pm EDT
Bert - the zealots claim they have - and there are no contradictions in the bible. Of course, they only extrapolate on the stuff they like...

Yeah, I know that they claim that, Joyce. But I challenge them to go read this
...and this.
And then tell me how there are no contradictions or absurdities.
libramoon C. May 10, 2009, 11:25pm EDT
"If most believing Christians would actually read the Bible, the entirety of it, and see all the contradictions, absurdities, incredible cruelty, intolerance, sexism...I could go on and on...I think their faith would be shattered."

My mom instituted Sunday Bible readings so we wouldn't grow up heathens. After a couple of Sundays, she was too embarassed to continue. We went to Golden Book versions.
libramoon C. May 10, 2009, 11:29pm EDT
after the Rapture
Gary Gentry May 11, 2009, 12:53am EDT
I don't beleive many Christians have read the Bible from front to back. Any reading has been selected passages, skipping around. When read that way, the contradictions aren't as obvious.
Svetlana Goryacheva May 11, 2009, 2:56am EDT
"I tend to think of Jesus as two entities. One is the cool Christ who was a teacher and talked about loving people. The second is a Christ that others have made up – kind of like a Zeus substitute. Since there is no indication that Jesus said he was the ‘son of God’ while he was alive I think his message has been lost tenfold over the whole deification."

Lisa is absolutely correct. The historical Jesus was MUCH different from the one the so-called religious fundamentalists (Johny-come-latelies, in fact) try to impose on us. He NEVER claimed a single thing specified in the text above - all this was ascribed to him by the not-so-reliable followers.

Blessings and best wishes - S.
Cena W. May 14, 2009, 11:19pm EDT
One year at the winter holiday, my children gave me a Jesus action figure. . .

Yes, they are adult non-believers like Mom.
CC Miranda the artrat (or am i?) Aug 29, 2009, 7:12pm EDT
i gave my uncle (a catholic priest) a nunzilla one year for christmas. it still sits on his desk some 12 years later at St. John's University.

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