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Thread #144236 Message #3334999
Posted By: Stringsinger
07-Apr-12 - 01:34 PM
Thread Name: BS: Follow Jesus, not religion Andrew Sullivan
Subject: RE: BS: Follow Jesus, not religion Andrew Sullivan
Watch out for the King James bible. There is a political aspect to cherry picking in it that defends the idea of compromising all the tenets of religion that were warring at the time.
It was written by scribes who couldn't really understand the meaning of what they were writing, being dutifully governed by those clerics with certain agendas. King James used the bible as a political tool.
All the Apostles were dead long before they were have reputed to written texts under their names.
The question remains: Who would Jesus kill? Who would Jesus bomb? Who would Jesus support in mobilizing these activities? Who would Jesus starve? Would Jesus make a good millionaire or billionaire? Would Jesus subjugate Palestinians, Afghans, Iraqis, Iranians or even North Koreans? Is Jesus Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu or even a Scientologist? Maybe Jesus was an atheist.
You see the problem with a "meme".