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Originally Posted by Saya
But whats wrong with thinking its created by humans by what they know of the divine? I mean from Biblical accounts Jesus was very much against fanaticism, and particularly the ostracizing of "sinners", and was very much trying to stop people from taking it to that level. But people being people and waiting thirty years after the fact to write fuck all down, and later twisting it around to service their needs, that changed. Its no wonder Paul wrote all those judgemental and bloody gorey bits and threw out the gnostics, and Constantine kept the spirit of that, they were Romans who didn't get the whole love thy neighbour bit and didn't know what it was to be oppressed and shunned. And I don't mean to say that its all the Romans's fault, but more that part of the problem is that it was very much tainted by narrow political views. Judas was inspired by Jesus and he still fucked up, why can't Paul?
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Because it doesn't make sense that an all-powerful, perfect deity would allow that to occur.
Honestly, I have no problem with Jesus (except when he did weird stuff like magically whither a fig tree because he wanted a snack but it didn't have any figs for him). I have a problem with people believing that he was divine, because all the evidence says he was not, and people base public policy on his divinity and not his philosophy.