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Monday, March 2, 2009

Jesus vs Logic-FC

Celsus was either a brave or stupid man of his time, not too many people would have the marbles to say it, "The story of Jesus was fabricated". Celsus uses common sense to question one of the main religions of his time. All the points made were valid to me, but if you are a strong believer in Christianity you would say he was crazy. During this time frame, what better way to make people stay in line than a brighter afterlife. What better way for a leader to justify his decisions with the help of religion that everyone uses. If you worked a crummy job and your home life was not great, what would effect your moral decisions? Religion? Would you steal to feed your family? Stealing is a sin. Would you kill someone to save your life, that is still murder. One thing I can say about mankind is that we are always looking for a brighter afterlife. In order to have that afterlife we need something to believe in and look forward to. Sometimes your mind will overlook the logic in some things to make you a believer.
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  1. Jeremy FergusonMarch 3, 2009 at 6:52 AM

    Although I agree with the logic used in this post, there are somethings I believe that are overlooked. For example, there were a lot of "mystery cults" that popped up during the same time. These cults offered happy after lives and did not require any of the work. On top of that, the Romans would not kill you for belonging to these cults because they all allowed their members to worship the emperor. Eventually they all died out.

    Second thing I'd like to point out, the number one critics of Christians are/were the Jews. The Jews had the body, they guarded it, and were militant in their persecution of Jesus and his followers. If anyone would have provided evidence against the Christian movement it would have been them and they would not have hesitated.

    These are just some of the things I thought needed to be addressed

    Jeremy Ferguson- FC

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  2. Ashley McDonaldMarch 3, 2009 at 7:50 AM

    I agree with Celsus' arguement. I am not biased with faith in the Christian religion, and find most, if not all questions plausible, relevant, and unsettling. It makes sense to use religion as a unifying force to control the lives of the subjects, and the Christian faith is very easily controlled and has been ever since it was instated as the Roman Empire's official religion. Positions of power in government often coincided with positions of power within the faith. At the time Constantine converted Rome to Christianity, there were many pagans living there as they always had, many mystery cults did spring up all looking for the answers to Why Are We Here, What's our Purpose? Universal questions peoples of every ethnicity and faith can observe. Jews persecute Christians because they completely upsurped their religion and ran with the Jesus complex. I don't believe Jesus existed, he is barely mentioned in any historical documents other than the Bible. If he did live, I certainly do not think he performed all those miracles he was said to have done. Jesus and Moses have many parallels, as do "saviors" or other Cultures. The idea of a virgin birth, death and ressurection, and disciples or followers were very common among cultures around the world that would have been "pagan" to the Romans.

    Ashley McDonald- FC

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