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I believe in the historical Jesus, that he was both divine and human,
Thats not the historical jesus, thats the mythic fella created when the Nicene creed was written.
Doing difference well starts with some simple concepts
Acceptance is probably more important than humility and whatever else you said.
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civilising the barbarians
Now there's a cute phrase, loaded with all manner of nastiness.
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Michael Meyers,
What I’m saying is some people disbelieve Dirty Politics, some people vote National and some people watch Seven Sharp
Some people…Cosy way of putting it I must say…
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new idea that all people, rich or poor, are equal in the eyes of God, and it is by the purity of our soul and the goodness of our actions that we shall be judged in the afterlife.
Better tell that to Steven Joyce or maybe he’s god…
Sorry but christianity didnt invent this idea.
Anyway I’m getting sick of this all over again
So julie christie is still fucking people over. Some thing never change wrong thread heheearthquake event in the intellectual development of mankind.
Oh please enough with the hyperbole
When did slavery get abolished? Some 1800 yrs later.
Well almost, it seems to be making a comeback in some quarters -
yeah Its a weird thing to come out with. Good ole Tom eh!
Just need a bit of knowledge and imagination to kinda put your mind back to those times..
Our minds didnt/havent changed that much in 2000yrs, just our circumstances.
And there is no pivot point where anyone can say that collectively our thought processes are different, or changed after it. -
Hard News: Media Take: The Easter Show, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Christian revolution
Whoa up there big fella! there never was any Christian revolution.
The residents of Galilee were mainly of the Jewish persuasion and didnt want to submit to Roman rule.They'd had enough of that from the Persians.[On a side note It was never their land in perpetuity the ancestors of the then residents had taken it by brutal and very violent means. And somewhat shamelessly, recorded their conquest in what became the old testament].
But they were eventually forced into accepting it violently by a military commander going by the name of Vespasian, circa 70 AD. He later became a ruler(emperor) of the Roman Empire.
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, that jesus ever existed.
Just being generous. Words is words is words. No one will ever know for sure :-) I'm A doubting Tomasino as well
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Like many atheists, I am actually quite interested in religion
Snap. These collections of people have over the millennium tried to soften relations between each other with varying degrees of success and failure. Holding the virtues like compassion, caring and helping those less fortunate than oneself out (in various ways) as some kind of aspirational /inspirational goal. But societies have just become more money oriented anyway.
And if they need a placebo like a god figure well as long as they dont shove it down others throats, OK. But it is a placebo and has the same effect as a sugar pill, as long as the person thinks its real, it works. But it is self defeating behaviour.
Cant we have caring societies without all this nonsense!And if I had to choose I'd pick the Hopi or indigenous Australians belief systems.
And some mind altering behaviour(with time off work) of course.None of us are going to defeat death, and I'm pretty sure Jesus didnt either
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Cats or wildlife?
Sorry but thats a false dichotomy.
And while I agree with Gareth Morgan about cats being registered. There are already people who take matters into their own hands, and not in a good way -
Access: Geoblocking, global mode and NZ…, in reply to Paul Campbell,
we’ll pay less
uh huh! ..... crickets......