To: 2MAR$ who wrote (10882 ) 2/17/2002 7:08:36 PM From: average joe Respond to "Virtually nothing is known about his youth or his life." "Only the the last 2 or 3 yrs of his life." "The largest religious gatherings on the earth "And John the Baptist never heard of this?" "This Jesus is self-contradictory . He preaches love and turning the other cheek , and the next week wishes his enemies brought before him and slain . He preaches forgiveness and tolerance and in the next sentence condemns the other tribes as being dogs and not worthy of God's message . And only to have a ministry of 3 yrs seems "But we find out , Jesus himself thought the Kingdom was at hand, even while some of his disciples lived, it would come." "There were of course the "miracles" , but we find the miracle of walking on the water taken from a story of "A curious mixture of hope and despair....but religion was ever born of fear and despair....and hope. So many things are borrowed from the predessors. The tale of the flood in Genesis we know comes from the Babylonian story." "Must be we are already living in eternity , and the Kingdom never came , because it never went . As Buddha taught it had more to do with living and awakening." "The young ones grow and the old ones know" NAMASTE everything is impossible.
