Jesus Christ? Stop me if you heard this one: Jesus Christ walks into a hotel…
He hands the innkeeper three nails and says, “Can you put me up for the night?”
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nope , not a phone number , but i got a song !! or , well , a url that points to a video of a set of images cued to a song ~ by warren zevon ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O2S1pH1bOo
Is that (what’s left of) Don King in the background, and is that what he wears to church?
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The idea that Jesus existed is hardly a fantastic claim, so my personal “proof required” isn’t very high. “Rose from the dead” is a different matter. These days, when somebody occasionally wakes up in the morgue, we generally conclude that their death was miss-diagnosed. That seems even more likely more than 1,000 years before the invention of the stethoscope. And if I woke up on the slab after the government tried to torture me to death, I’d lay pretty low and not be heard from again.
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Watching the video, I was kind of hoping to see tRump go up in a puff of smoke as soon as they all joined hands. That group needs to find a more reliable god.
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That part of the Bible doesn’t apply…only the parts that make sense to me!
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All the women love Jesus. [spreads arms] He was hung like this!
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#notallChristians
I totally agree with you that some people that call themselves Christians completely fail to understand what Jesus actually says to do (love your neighbor as yourself, etc…). I often wonder if they have ever read the book. Not all of us are like that.
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It’s entirely possible since Don King has endorsed Trump with some very strong language.
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Ah, thank you! That was my first laugh of the day.
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I dunno.
Saul of Tarsus wrote his letter to the Romans in the early-to-mid 50’s in the first century, and indications are that he was preaching for about 10 years before that.
If you date the alleged Jesus’ death to ~30 A.D., that’s not a long span between when it happened and when people started talking about it. If it didn’t happen at all, you’d think that people would notice.
We should discuss this issue further in its own thread.
But I agree with @simonize – the claim that there was a wandering religious teacher at the time is far from extraordinary. That there should be supernatural claims made about him is also not hard to believe. The idea that these claims are both literally true and the most significant events in history is more difficult to swallow. I’ve had people ask me what evidence would convince me of the literal truth of the whole Bible, and particularly the claims about Jesus. I don’t even know where to start, as the question itself presupposes that this is all some kind of untested hypothesis. I generally answer by saying something like “I don’t know. A lot more than claims like that doctors wouldn’t lie or that people wouldn’t lie to continue a cult when their life is on the line, or that people couldn’t mistakenly believe something that becomes a world religion. Something that isn’t routinely disproven by observing many cults nowadays, at the very least.”
As for questions about the existence of some guy called Jesus who is loosely the basis for the Gospels, I don’t think it matters too much whether he did or didn’t exist, or whether the stories were actually based on many people, the sun god or anything else. There’s enough time since the alleged time of death for myths to develop (which they do even with living cult leaders), and I find it easier to believe that someone existed to hang these myths onto. Who knows though – it’s not like the information we have is particularly reliable.
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Rumors of my death were highly exaggerated.
People used to be mistaken for dead all the time up until the advent of modern medicine, and occasionally buried alive. That’s why some cultures have a waiting period before they bury their dead.
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Wow, even Mr Trump is speechless for once when faced with this very particular flavour of foolishness.
Yes, yes, freedom of religion, these people are free to believe in space pixies and whatnot, but I am free to believe that they are full-frontal, raw-and-bareback nutty-nuts.
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I am truly amazed at the level of Hypocrisy in the world today. The GOP exemplifies this, but any minority that sucks up to Drumpf has plenty of their own.
OMG, I love mini Golf!
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See, the trick is to hit the ball just right through one hole in Jesus’ side and out the other. Then you’ll get a hole in one.
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Someone better tell Mexico before they waste their time:
Same here!
