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Old 13-11-2008, 17:36   #46
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Re: Jesus Christ Prince of Peace?

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This thread has turn surreal.

This is actually what I was referring to.

So not real cheesemakers then?

Ho hum, ya live and learn
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Old 13-11-2008, 18:37   #47
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Re: Jesus Christ Prince of Peace?

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So not real cheesemakers then?

Ho hum, ya live and learn
Better than real cheese makers, Life Of Brian style cheesemakers !
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Old 13-11-2008, 18:40   #48
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Better than real cheese makers, Life Of Brian style cheesemakers !

Yeah..... but..... do they make a mean cheddar?

And do they gotta squish it? lol
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Old 13-11-2008, 19:23   #49
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An Atheist's view - and I am not suggesting that you should agree with it

Most people behave humanely towards their fellow men/women
because it is the way to ensure successful survival in any society.
This is a basic instinct amongst any animal that lives in social groups.

There is a conflict with another basic instinct for selfishness.
The two are in conflict, and societies adopted religion as a means to supress
that selfishness. It provides them with a reason to conform to a society's rules.
(for those who need a reason)

It is dangerous to attempt to persuade people to abandon their religion as long as
some people need a religion in order to behave in a civilised way.
I can't ever see a time when that won't be neccessary.

In the interest of peaceful co-existance, it is wisest to leave people with the beliefs that they have,
even though you may not agree with them.

Live and let live ---- an essential strategy for a peaceful existance
Sounds a lot like the "Nicomachean Ethics" to me .... this stuff could be termed subversive
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Old 13-11-2008, 19:41   #50
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At the end of the day people that are getting angry about this don't know the facts and don't want to know the facts. If you study mythology it is a fact that several religions that pre-date Christianty by 100's of years used the same ideas - you people that are getting angry do not want to know the facts. Dionysus was also put on a cross 100's of years before so called Jesus - so the claim that the foundation of Christianity are unique to it are not true! Any one who dismisses this is not being reasonable or rational because a little bit of study will prove it to be true! Also my views arn't religous they are historical - I am looking at similar ideas that were used a long time before Christianity but are claimed by Christianiy to be unique to it when they arn't!
This is a bs argument, if it is an argument at all. Studying mythology to get to the "facts"! You gotta be joking. And there are significant problems identifying a "historical" Jesus, let alone a "historical" Dionysius. And Christianity is not based on Christ's crucifiction, rather, on his return from the dead. I don't belive this personally; to believe it is an act of faith, which is the basis of any religion, and I don't have that faith. One can argue that Easter coincides with spring in general, rather than on a particular day, because Christ's rising from the dead is a metaphor for the "rebirth" or "resurrection" of the Earth following the "death" of winter. Older symbols such as rabbits and eggs are still common; more people eat easter eggs than attended mass at Easter. In order to propose the "historically accurate argument" one has to use a form of history that is current today .... history has not always been a matter of factual accuracy; one has only to read Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", or, better still, Bede's "History", to recognize this. What lessons history had for the common man, was a much more important consideration than addiction to fact. Therefore it is not surprising that the Bible is more replete with metaphor than with facts and figures.
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