You know, in this life I have tried to be open and look at all belief systems. Done the homework, read the books. Try to be objective, fit things into times and culture. I admit as a belief/mythology, the Christians have something unique. A God who was willing to be one of us, but somehow was ultimately rejected and killed in a brutal fashion (check out Mel Gibson’s The Passion), then pulled off the ultimate magic act, got up out of the grave, went off to heaven and is waiting for the day when He thinks it’ll be cool to show up again. Sounds like the ultimate fairy tale.
The part I have to ask myself is, what the fuck is so “good” about torturing God? Isn’t that what all this passion of the Christ is about. If the mythology is right (and I’m not here to argue it is or isn’t) then Jesus was God. And we short sighted humans somehow missed that, and got pissed off enough to kill him. Seems a dark day to me. Forgive me but I miss the good part. In all this wanting to be forgiven, it seems we have forgotten who had to pay the price. If it’s true, then I could only ever call Easter good. —Contemplating the Day
This article appears in Mar 28 – Apr 3, 2013.
Zombie jeebus wants your Easter brains!
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OP you are correct, Jesus is God. God so loved the world that he sacrificed his only son so we could have eternal life. That is the short form. In order for Him to win back legally what satan stole he had to come to the earth in a human form, Jesus. He had to bear the sins of the world, that’s why he had to suffer so badly. The sins of ALL mankind were heaped upon his back, No wonder he suffered so intensely. But it was all in God’s plan, all ordered by God, and Jesus knew the outcome even though he didn’t look forward to the suffering. Time and space limit my response but you should contact your local clergyman for a complete answer. That’s just the short form. Praise God for the blood He shed!
Cool story, bro.
Haha legally! Wogdog wins the internet for today.
I don’t want anyone answering for my sins. I’ll pay my own tolls, thank you very much. Why is it only the faithful that are looking for a free pass?
It’s all a crock of steaming gnat shit, OP, people have swallowed that malarky for centuries and it’s been a huge money maker for organized religion. I always said that if Jesus was real and could visit the earth, the first thing he’d do is fire his PR people.
I could smell that Bog Log a country mile away, FS – we had that figured out when she reappeared under the moniker ‘Loony- oh, I mean ‘Boomy’ which probably means her tits have finally hit the floor with a resounding BOOM! Photo should indicate: ‘Not exactly as shown – not even close’.
‘Gary’s flange’ – Jebus, Styles, coughed up a half a cup of coffee reading your remarks – did you notice she’s had some Botox done to fill in those stretch marks around the ol’ sock sucker?
She also likes to pull this ‘I Blow For Jesus’ crap just to shake things up with the norms.
She is, indeed, ‘looking for an argument’. You can bet your old wooden cross on it.
God is Great. God is Good. Let us thank him for the fucking messed up world we live in.
God is fucking bipolar as far as I’m concerned. Bless this, smite that, turn the other cheek, pluck out the eye that pisses you off, cut your kid in half, don’t cut your kid in half – who needs that kind of instability in a deity? I’ll continue to worship an 12 pack of Keiths Red and be thankful that it’s not a 2L bottle of Colt 45. And I get to say ‘A-beer’ instead of ‘A-men’.
It was about politics in all likelihood. Christ was gaining a lot of popularity in the pastoral areas and, in the height of Passover, the Romans and Jewish leaders were concerned his message might ignite the masses in the more urban Jerusalem. The humiliation and brutality inflicted on Christ was a message to his followers.
Good Friday is called Good because it is the beginning of the transition of Christ the man to Chist the god. That’s been my own interpretation, I could be wrong. I’m just your garden variety athiest.
Why do Christians need a resurrection? Isn’t it enough that the man gave (willingly, unwillingly we’ll never know) his life for what he believed and that his martyrdom clinched the fact that his word would live on? I don’t get the resurrection.
“Why do Christians need a resurrection?” – Because people fear death. When worshiping a resurrection you’re convincing yourself that life after death is possible (in some form). It’s a last jab at death, at nothing, “You’ll never take me alive, Death! Ima live furever!” Our minds can’t process the thought of an eternity of nothing after we die. We need to have some sort of visual to grasp the situation. The Afterlife, Karmic Cycle, and resurrection are all example of this. We’ve been fighting death since we’ve been able to think
There is no free pass dumb fuck, our ransom was paid in full by the second person of the Trinity. And there is no way you can pay your own tolls. With what do you plan to pay this price? Money will never do, neither will intelligence, or lack of it, nor will fame, nor your two 100lbs dogs. Only faith and trust in the death and ressurection of the one and only Son of God will pay your “toll”.
Don’t believe me? Keep thinking this way and then when you die and you find yourself at the appointed time standing before the Judgement seat of Christ and have to answer to everything you have ever done, thought or said or failed to do, think or say, and your name is not found written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, your knee will still have to bow and your tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is LORD.
Then after that you and all like you, who have rejected His offer of salvation will find the temperature starting to rise to a very uncomfortable level very quickly, but the best part is that you won’t burn and you will have eternity to enjoy your decision of rejecting the ONLY means of salvation. Don’t believe me? Tell them when you get there. I’m sure the devil and his deamons could use a good laugh.