Thread: # Jesus: God or Just a Good Man?

"..what Jesus wants us to do has led to atrocities such as ....... the Holocaust. " I really must object to that atrocious statement. It is sick, inaccurate and objectionable. The actions of the Nazi government had absolutely nothing to do with Christianity except that it was violently opposed to any religion. Moderator? "Which has killed more humans? Beverage alcohol, or religion?" Jesus is NOT religion. In...

UI, If Jesus represents in any way what the Christian God wants, then I can see some comparison to the holocaust being justifiable. I understand that there is a bit of a stretch in logic involved, but nonetheless it has some merit. God and many of His followers, according to the Christian Bible, have committed acts of mass murder and genocide. The Great Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, The First Born of Egypt, are among the many examples in the...

"(sear are you pulling our legs about the beer in the wall?)" Grace You think I could make a thing like that up? No Grace. The house is a ranch house in Stormville, NY. That's where Greenhaven prison is. ""..what Jesus wants us to do has led to atrocities such as ....... the Holocaust. " I really must object to that atrocious statement. It is sick, inaccurate and objectionable. The actions of...

What has always struck me as strange, people attending Sunday services where they no doubt pray from what ever is upper most in the mind. However later on in the week they do things which are against the Christen / or any Religion teaching, and back on Sunday to ask for, forgiveness. A little Hypocritical in my book.

sear wrote: And that Billy Beer reference takes me back a few decades. I actually bought a 6-pack of that. I was astounded. It may have been the first beer I ever tried that was so bad, I wouldn't drink it. So perhaps Billy Carter wasn't such a bad guy after all. Perhaps he was trying to get people to stop drinking! Or perhaps he was secretly experimenting with a beer made from fermented peanuts.

Cass....pardon the error.....I'd heard Appleseed a real person also? Perhaps Paul Bunyan and Pecos Pete carved the Grand Canyon would've been more correct? Pretty much in agreement that which you stated. Difficulty....confess you way to heaven. Good "Act of Contrition" get outta jail/hell card. And that which is common/repetitive theme most religious ideologies..."do unto others that wished done unto...

I did not know they really had a 'Billy beer' (sear are you pulling our legs about the beer in the wall?) http://www.str.org/site/News2?id=5460&page=NewsArticle&printer_friendly=1 Every word has a definition and usually the definition entails a couple of different things that make the full definition, and if the details are not there, you can't apply the word. The same is true of "Christian."...

Ok you mean Jesus detested "established religion" as it is understood now... if true it's almost the best religious irony I heard of.

Fictional character.

Utopian - I guess if you want to, you can dig up all of the alleged burial grounds and see if any of them match the DNA of the original guy's descendants. Johnny Appleseed is a legend based off of a bunch of stories written about a real man. It wasn't uncommon to write things like that about living people - that's how the legend about George Washington chopping down a cherry tree and being unable to lie about it got started. I,...