WOTMQ: He Is Risen! So What?
Hello my beautiful patrons!!!
We'll start this month's videos with the video I'll be releasing to the rest of the world Easter week. Over the years, I've found that one of the most productive tactics in speaking with believers is to assume their point, and then show them how even that fails to produce any useful information.
The Resurrection of Jesus is one such point of contention. Even IF Jesus really did rise from the dead, what are we to learn from that? Is there any meaningful information to be had? I don't think there is — not beyond the need to speculate wildly. Religious belief is really nothing but assumption piled on assumption piled on assumption... all the way down.
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Comments (8)
Yes! Nearly spit out my tea when the Steve Howe image flashed up on the screen. Thanks for that! And for the rest of your cogently argued videos that go straight to the point instead of being Roundabout arguments.
*IF* he rose from the dead —a huge, unproven *IF*. As you said, the product of wishful thinking to assuage one's fear of… wait for it… death. Tsk. It's all plagiarism anyway, copying earlier myths about Baal, Melqart, Adonis, Eshmun, Osiris, Dumuzi. Maybe Joshua of Nazareth was a phoenix and rose from his own ashes to take flight? Pfffft.
Not bloody likely!!!
We see Christians being fooled by mere human grifters all the time, yet they deem themselves utterly immune to the blandishments of a supernatural Father of Lies equipped with unknown powers of persuasion. WTF?
That's a great point!
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The reason the deification of Jesus (and the Resurrection, etc.) is obviously bunk is that it didn’t add to Jesus’s message or make his mission more important or really anything of more value. Actually, it serves to undermine his mission. In a recent Medium.com post (What Jesus Actually Said by Dan Foster) a listing of what might be construed as Jesus’s commandments shows that modern American Christians are not even close to living a Jesus-led life. So, declaring, in retrospect, Jesus to be God shockingly didn’t improved his clout with his own believers!
Without a genuine dedication to the truth, people believe only what they want to believe. Faith becomes and anesthetic.