"It is even possible to mount a serious, though not widely supported, historical case that Jesus never lived at all, as has been done by, among others, Professor G.A. Wells of the University of London in a number of books, including Did Jesus Exist?."
--The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins, Houghton Mifflin Company 2006, p 97.
Ya know the wine at church; it is not just wine. It really is the blood of Jesus.
At my school they used watered down port, watered down with holy water. That's what makes is Jesus blood, its also a great way to find vampires, 'want some wine vampire? HA HA its mixed with holy water!'
Holy crap, I would totally use garlic toothpaste. Or maybe PestoPaste, with marina floss. And meatball mouthwash. And pepperoni. The pepperoni wouldn't have any hygenic value. I just like it. Italian cuisine FTW.
Just to chime in on this "Did Jesus exist" debate. Just going on what the bible has said about Jesus one can reach two logical conclusions that either some guy named Jesus wrote said some stuff about being kind and then this was reported by Peter and some other "apostles" (if they existed). Paul of Tarsus then related some other teachings and the word Christian started to be used to describe people who were part of this movement. A generation later some of the stories about "Jesus" were collected and made into the gospels some of which are more or less made-up (John, Judas, Thomas, Peter, etc.) The three "synoptic" gospels (Mark, Luke, Matthew) are very much connected as Matthew and Luke are both based on Mark with either additional research or embellishment.
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First, wrote or said? Pick one. Second, what makes certain books any more or less "made up?" The Council of Trent simply picked which ones worked the best at the time and said "These ones are real, those others were written by fuckers." And the idea of further research is nuts. The Gospels get more and more supernatural as they go. The further the writers were away from the original ideas and times of Jesus, the more fantastical they became.
The Cameron thing is ridiculous, though. Yeshua was a common name in the Middle East at that time. So were Miriam and Yoseph. And - as Steve Berry points out in The Templar Legacy - the Romans didn't allow crucified prisoners to be buried. They were left to be picked apart by the birds and animals. Cameron is playing the "exploit the Christians who will get pissed and the anti-Christians who will bow at my feet" card.
Just one comment on the this whole Jesus had a wife and child. Just quickly thinking about it nowhere was it ever said that he didn't and the only reason that people are getting "offended" by this is because the Catholic Church has always attributed the same vows that priest takes to Jesus but their is only stuff about him being poor and obedient to God in the Bible nothing about his supposed celibacy. He was relatively old for his time period when he is said to have left so there is a chance he was married and such.
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"It is even possible to mount a serious, though not widely supported, historical case that Jesus never lived at all, as has been done by, among others, Professor G.A. Wells of the University of London in a number of books, including Did Jesus Exist?."
--The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins, Houghton Mifflin Company 2006, p 97.
Mmmm....garlic toothpaste.
First, wrote or said? Pick one. Second, what makes certain books any more or less "made up?" The Council of Trent simply picked which ones worked the best at the time and said "These ones are real, those others were written by fuckers." And the idea of further research is nuts. The Gospels get more and more supernatural as they go. The further the writers were away from the original ideas and times of Jesus, the more fantastical they became.
The Cameron thing is ridiculous, though. Yeshua was a common name in the Middle East at that time. So were Miriam and Yoseph. And - as Steve Berry points out in The Templar Legacy - the Romans didn't allow crucified prisoners to be buried. They were left to be picked apart by the birds and animals. Cameron is playing the "exploit the Christians who will get pissed and the anti-Christians who will bow at my feet" card.