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When all other messaging fails so you appeal to people’s foot fetish
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If you honestly believe that Jesus was a good guy, please read the Bible.
I'm so tired of people claiming Jesus was a good guy Jesus was this and that. He's a character that pretended to be a prophet.
Imagine somone came to you today telling you he's talking to God. Do you A listen to him or B move to the other side of the street because he's a lunatic. So why would you believe it based on stories written down by anonymous sources decades after the proposed events?
Most of the shit in the Bible is made up, including stories about Jesus. You hoping Christians would only listen to the nice parts of the Bible is the equivalent of mother fuckers trying to skate uphil.
You cannot combat lies with your preferred lies. The only way to combat lies is the truth.
And the truth is that we almost have no idea what Jesus said or did. We have hearsay accounts decades after his death with conflicting stories and straight up magic, curses and enchantments.
He was a mythological character who in all likelihood did not exist at all.
Discussing the different literary incarnations of a character can be constructive and instructive for understanding the people that create these myths and for whom the myths resonate.
It's worth considering that the things people tend to highlight about jesus's behavior are the things that we would today consider good and righteous rather then the petty bitch stuff he is also known for.
I'd like to encourage people to care about the poor, contempt the wealthy, shun the violent, pity the misanthrope, help downtrodden, comfort the suffering, and open their arms to embrace humanity.
Since the whole story is made up in the first place perhaps we get to choose the parts of it that we think need to survive. The myth doesn't need to be real for compassion to be worth investing with faith.
The sources of antiquity are a bit bogus and there are many conflicts of interest for those reporting on them.
The parts of the Bible that talk about Jesus were written after he died. I don't think there's any evidence that Jesus considered himself a profit. He called himself the son of God, but all Christians call God "our father," pray to "him," and "listen" for "messages," so I don't think you should read into it too much. It was his apostles who promoted him as a diety.
If your only evidence that Jesus was a bad person is that he either didn't exist or was delusional, I don't think you have any evidence that he was a bad person.
Real or fake, delusional or not, the actions he's said to have taken and the messages he's said to have said are indisputably good.