Mike Adams is a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington
and author of "Letters to a Young Progressive: How To Avoid Wasting Your Life Protesting Things You Don’t Understand."
Posted on 12/04/2013 3:17:41 PM PST by servo1969
Mike Adams is a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington
and author of "Letters to a Young Progressive: How To Avoid Wasting Your Life Protesting Things You Don’t Understand."
Is there a condensed more concise version of his perspective on this topic? If not, I’ll just come back when I have more time.
Mike Adams is a syndicated columnist. That’s his column for this week. How much more concise do you need? A three-panel comic strip?
Strongly recommend reading “Religion on Trial,” by Craig A. Parton, wherein “a trial lawyer well schooled in the laws of admissible evidence brings insight and clarity to matters normally thought to be solely in the domain of philosophers and theologians.”
Yeah, that was a lot of words. I hate reading as much as you. Especially on a News and Opinion aggregation site like Freerepublic.com.
o_O
We don’t divide time using Jesus’ birth. We divide it using a convention begun by a forgotten monk who made a mistake.
We seize on that error, recognize that the time stake is essentially arbitrary (The Romans used the legendary founding of the city the same way) and then reference the agreed upon error tainted moment.
With regard to the legend, of those 42 sources, how many actually met the man.
The author of Matthew was not matthew, and probably didn’t meet Jesus.
The author of Mark was Paul’s secretary, and probably didn’t meet Jesus. It is likely that Paul never met Jesus.
The author of Luke was commissioned by one Theophilus, and probably didn’t meet Jesus.
So many of the ‘sources’ are not sources at all.
I like to point out the paradox of Jesus.
With great care and concern, his followers and scholars point out to great detail how he conformed to the prophecies of the Jewish Moshiach, Messiah. And yet, once in that role, he did little or nothing a Moshiach was supposed to do, but went off in his own direction.
While he created a new religion, the old one ignored him so much that over the years, several others rose up to claim the role of Moshiach. And some of them were far more persuasive to Jews that they were indeed the Moshiach.
However, this does not matter to Christians, because in their view, Jesus wrote his own rules and was not bound to Jewish traditions of what they thought he should be.
“...the obvious implications of this: that the universe was caused by a supernatural force existing outside of space and time”
Or it was caused by the nature of that which existed before, a different kind of natural process, not a supernatural force existing otherwise. See “A brief History of Time” by Hawking.
As for the supernatural force, I don’t get phone calls from it nor emails. Why would its rules be be “Jam yesterday and Jam tomorrow but never Jam today.”?
I have to object to using Charles Manson as the exemplar “lunatic”. I don’t dispute that Manson is a lunatic, but there have been who knows how many thousands of lunatics in this world? I, myself, have know several.
None of the ones I personally knew were vicious serial murderers, as Manson is.
Chose some peaceful loon, I don’t know who, but I didn’t write this piece. To choose Manson is just inflammatory and weakens the argument.
The entire article is a mere 1003 words - for most people, reading it would take about two minutes of their time. Meanwhile, you yourself have posted 778 words to FR, just since this morning. You're telling us that you can't spare another two minutes of your time, to read instead of write?
“We don’t divide time using Jesus’ birth. We divide it using a convention begun by a forgotten monk who made a mistake.”
It’s close enough for government work.
To me the paradox of Jesus is that noone recognizes that the prophecies were available for forgers to create a pretend Jesus, long after his putative life, and then pretend that their ability to reference various prophecies was somehow evidence of the reality of their scam.
So you think the ten sources met Tiberius?
Choose Thomas, the peaceful but crazy guy beaten to death by Downey California police officers.
I don’t know what sources he counts. I guessed that some of his Christian sources were the gospels.
That's as ignorant a statement as I've seen on FR.
Congratulations, you've shown yourself worthy of DU or KOS.
Well duu-uuhhh. Ya think? Wow, a history of the man by those who knew the man, what a concept.......
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