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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (19329)	3/7/2005 10:55:39 AM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 28931

<resurrection from the dead is a trick.> Two possibilities come to mind and can't be be discarded from this vantage point. First, Jesus had a twin (or look-alike) with whom he worked - a knowing partner - with whom he shared a vision of bringing down the Roman Empire, even to the point one would die. A cell. Many people used to tell me that they knew people that looked like me. Before the age of photographs, doubles had much less trouble posing as someone else. Second, Jesus didn't die at Calvary and was only severely wounded and in a coma. There are stories of people waking up in refrigerators or tables in morgues. It doesn't happen often, but being buried alive was quite common in older times and scratches on coffin lids were interpreted as the undead or vampires. It is really weak to expect that a single written account is supposed to convince those of intellect. Does God want to fill heaven with credulous people and leave those with discerning intellect high and dry? I make my job by debunking industrial myths and providing evidence for the ones that are true. If God made me in His image, he'd be an idiot to expect me to become something I'm not.

To: Greg or e who wrote (19329)	3/7/2005 1:20:51 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

<Ancient people were not stupid. I think it is just a bit arrogant to assume they were. > Straw man alert!! We are talking about ignorance, which is different than stupidity or gullibility. Do you think that the time the Egyptians spent building temples to animal-head gods, Anubis and various pharaohs was evidence of being "stupid" or just "religiously ill-informed"? Maybe it was important for maintaining order to act AS THOUGH pharaohs were God and to give hope by maintaining that the Land of the Dead was just beyond the horizon. Does pagan placement of fish in a certain shape along with the seeds planted indicate "stupidity" or do certain rituals entrain collective knowledge that isn't articulated by individuals? Yes, putting a fish in the hole with your seeds will make them grow better, but not for the reasons imagined by the primitive. Having everyone role-play against a script (even if they do it perfectly) doesn't make pharaoh God, though, does it?