Religious Inconsistencies

[Johnfromokc]

 

[Johnfromokc]

 

[Johnfromokc]

 

[Minor Axis]

That is hilarious!

 

[Stone]

That is hilarious!

And you think that doesn't piss off your fantasy spirit world?





LOL!

 

[Johnfromokc]

Where ya been Stone?

 

[Stone]

Where ya been Stone?

Waiting for GIA to post ..........( j/k )

 

[Johnfromokc]

An 8-year-old choir boy catches the priest masturbating.

He said, "What are you doing father?"

"It's called masturbating" the priest replied, "You'll be doing this soon."

"Why father ?" he asked.

"Because my wrist is killing me" the priest replied.

:tooth

 

[CityGirl]

 

[Minor Axis]

Newsweek/Daily Beast: Who Was Jesus?

Outstanding article in the December Newsweek about Jesus. For the doubters, the article illustrates why faith is faith, but it is not based on factual historical documents, it's based on good stories. For believers, I think you have to take a step back and consider upon what basis your faith has been established, something that looks like fact, or for lack of fact, a sense of the truth of all Christian based dogma, or just wishful thinking and latching on to a conveniently promoted structure combined with childhood indoc.

As Christians around the world now prepare to celebrate Jesus’ birth, it is worth considering that much of the “common knowledge” about the babe in Bethlehem cannot be found in any scriptural authority, but is either a modern myth or based on Gospel accounts from outside the sacred bounds of Christian Scripture. Some obvious examples: nowhere does the Bible indicate what year Jesus came into the world, or that he was born on Dec. 25; it does not place an ox and an ass in his manger; it does not say that it was 3 (as opposed to 7 or 12) wise men who visited him.

For many centuries, most Christians garnered their information about the birth of Jesus not from the New Testament but from popular writings that were not officially considered Scripture. One of the best known of these books is called the “Proto-Gospel of James,” composed probably in the late second century, a century after the canonical Gospels, and accordingly, far less likely that they contain anything like historically accurate information. But Christians throughout the Middle Ages were rarely interested in historical accuracy; they loved stories and reveled in their meaning, especially stories having anything to do with the appearance of the Son of God in the world.