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To: michael97123 who wrote (31885)2/27/2004 12:24:42 PM
From: E  Read Replies (1) of 793977
 
And actually saying that E has an anti-christian mentality is an unwarranted slur on her.

I don't think it was a slur in the sense that redfish was saying he thinks I'm not a good person. I think he just meant that I'm an atheist, and also that I don't take seriously historical claims based on "faith," and he's right about that.

These conclusions, though, are those reached by Christian religious historians.

~ The Gospels were not written by the people whose names are attached to them.

~ They are internally inconsistent on major and minor matters of factual assertion.

~ A prime motivation for the bias the Gospels express relates to the understandable desire of the new Jesus sect to curry favor with the Roman authorities and to clearly distinguish its communicants from the defeated and rebellious Jews.

~ The Gospels vary in the degree of anti-Judaism they express, but they are products of the post-destruction of the Temple period when the new Jesus cult was in the process of separating itself from Judaism and entering into active competition with it. Jesus had been dead for about seventy years by this time.

In short, the Gospels are political documents. Tracts, even. Gibson's concentration of blame for the punishment of Jesus away from the Romans, and toward their Temple elite collaborators and by extension, to all Jews -- a maneuver most unmistakably evident in what is apparently a rather tender treatment of Pontius Pilate -- may have some of the same ugly consequences in this pop retelling of the Passion that it has had in other settings.

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