Jesus Christ

[Don Blue]

Comrades, we all know that Jesus Christ is the most influential person in history. What do you think about him and how can we embrace his message to spread with our revolution?

[red cat]

You will probably get restricted if you try to preach religion here.

[The Intransigent Faction]

Jesus? What about Abraham? Luke 16:19-31 for the win! To hell with the bourgeoisie :p.

[Invincible Summer]

If we want to talk about Jesus, why not Hercules or Huckleberry Finn? They're all just as real and relevant

[OldMoney]

haha abraham, I was gonna say mosses or buddah, although he hasnt been around as long, the population increases and percentage of followers may be close. but maybee blue is suggesting we think out side the box snd somehow hook the religious right into studying communism, by telling them that jesus preached socialist ideas along with his message of the afterlife. Then when thier brains are detoxed from imperialism and have a proper communist education we explain it was all a big joke, but it was for a common good. They will be properly educated and see the humor in it.

[Dooga Aetrus Blackrazor]

Did Jesus even exist? I mean, it's hard to make sense of the whole situation once they get into nonsense about raising from the dead. Is there a reasonable atheistic explanation of the whole biblical time period nonsense?

I generally assume Jesus doesn't exist because (1) it doesn't really matter if he did or not, as I see it, and (2) it really annoys Christians.

And I don't appreciate sarcasm with respect to Hercules, which is apparently the Roman name. The Greeks called him Heracles, which I prefer myself. All hail Heracles!

[Die Rote Fahne]

Comrades, we all know the Invisible Pink Unicorn was the most influential unicorn in history.

Just trollin.

But seriously. Jesus is overrated.

[Barry Lyndon]

"Jesus Christ was the first socialist, and Judas the first capitalist."- Hugo Chavez

[Franz Fanonipants]

I like Him a lot. But this probably isn't the place.

[Invincible Summer]

I like Him a lot. But this probably isn't the place.

No, it really, really isn't.

[Anti-Zionist]

I'm not saying his birth place didn't exist but some archaeologists believe Nazareth didn't in his time. I mean it's not even on the pilgrimage route.


Here's some things to think about:



There were about 40 historians who wrote during the first two centuries. None stated that Jesus existed in the 1st century.



Cornelius Tacitus: He was a Roman historian who lived from 55 to 120 CE and wrote a book Annals, circa 112 CE. McDowell and Stewart accept his writings as a strong indicator of Jesus' existence in the early 1st century CE.However, the information could have been derived from Christian material circulating in the early 2nd century.
Pope Leo X (1513-1521): Some believe that he considered Jesus to be a mere legend.
For Some reason Many skeptics have taken to the notion, one laid to rest long ago, that Nazareth never existed as an inhabited city in the time of Jesus. They point to a website which claims that the author has excavated the stie of ancient Nazareth and found it to be a mere single family farm.

Basically this is an argument from silence, there are four major points:



Josephus never mentions Nazareth, and apparently it isn't mentioned in any other records of the day. Josephus even documents a military campaign that the Romans into the very vicinity of Nazareth and yet no mention of it.
Apparently some claim that the only evidence of human habitation from Christ's time would have been caves in the area, but Jews would never live in caves because they used caves to bury people, and as there are graves near by they would never live in graves or near dead bodies
The geography is wrong. Apparently there is no cliff near the Synagogue which Jesus might be thrown off of as is seen in Luke.
It is always pointed out that a popular website of an excavation of Nazareth calls it a "single family farm."

[AK]

Comrades, we all know that Jesus Christ is the most influential person in history. What do you think about him and how can we embrace his message to spread with our revolution?
This is a troll, right?