[Mrs. Don-o]

There were many Jews, as well as men of other tribes and nationalities, who originated religious revival groups, opposed Roman rule, and got crucified or otherwise snuffed for it. That this one crushed worm, this one loser, Jesus, should have been posthumously propped up by charlatans to pass off as their battered 'god' completely defies common sense. Alexander the Grear would have been a far more credible candidate. Or even Jesus' contemporary, Caesar Augustus.

And that the religious humbuggery of this one loser-jew, with its hoaxes, exposes, bank-frauds, imbecilities, morally decayed clergy, persecution, extirpation, internal schism, splintering, feuding, waning in every age, dying out in every age, a passe thing in every age, should last 2000 years and spread to comprise, even now, well over 1 billion people --- this also completely defies common sense.

That some of the best minds in the West in art, music, science, and law ---- Dante, Michelangelo, Bach, Albertus Magnus, Aquinas, Newton, Pasteur, Mendel, Vittoria (but there could never be enough room to list them all)--- were also quite devoted to this hoax is simply astounding.

But no need to wonder.

It's waning; it's dying out; it's a passe thing, I'm sure...

[don-o]

When I question whether to believe Christianity, I look at the deaths of the Apostles. All, save John, were executed by the power - plus Judas who killed himself, unable to endure the horror of what he did.

I find it impossible to believe that eleven men would stick to the same story and die telling it, if it were just made up. It's just not how humans act, is it?