what was important about Jesus was what he SAID, what he TAUGHT, what he tried to instill in his followers
I am so glad to hear someone else say that! I'm a Christian and I don't care if Jesus was resurrected, I don't even care if he was literally the son of God, he was a good man who taught some very good lessons on how to be a good human being. I know a lot of Christians and non Christians who act through love and give selflessly not because they want something in return, but it's always the "Good Decent God Fearing Christians" who speak the loudest and do the least. They have all the money and don't give it away to those who really need it. They condemn gays because love is apparently abhorent if you're not the 'right' gender. They condone wars because it makes the darker skinned people go away or step into line. The vocal minority are the least Christian-like Christians I have ever seen. I'm sorry to say too that there seems to be a disproportionate number of them in the US, though there are some here too.
And so many people don't even know their history, there are people who say "Jesus wasn't even real", yet if they pick up their history books they'll find out he did exist - that's not something that's unsure, what's unsure is if he was the son of God. And the crap some Christians go on with, saying Mary wasn't anyone special - no she was just the mother of the man they're worshiping!
Who cares if Jesus' remains are still here, who cares if he did marry Mary Magdelene and whether she was a former prostitute or not, we should care about living with some morals instead of judgements. But I guess people like them will never get it and just see us as 'heathens'.
One thing I don't get about the current debate over whether it's Jesus' tomb or not is that they say the name on the tomb is Yesua yet I leant at school that his real name was Yoshua Ben Yosef. It's possible of course that some translator along the line changed but it's an odd discrepancy
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Date: Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 04:06 am (UTC)I am so glad to hear someone else say that! I'm a Christian and I don't care if Jesus was resurrected, I don't even care if he was literally the son of God, he was a good man who taught some very good lessons on how to be a good human being. I know a lot of Christians and non Christians who act through love and give selflessly not because they want something in return, but it's always the "Good Decent God Fearing Christians" who speak the loudest and do the least. They have all the money and don't give it away to those who really need it. They condemn gays because love is apparently abhorent if you're not the 'right' gender. They condone wars because it makes the darker skinned people go away or step into line. The vocal minority are the least Christian-like Christians I have ever seen. I'm sorry to say too that there seems to be a disproportionate number of them in the US, though there are some here too.
And so many people don't even know their history, there are people who say "Jesus wasn't even real", yet if they pick up their history books they'll find out he did exist - that's not something that's unsure, what's unsure is if he was the son of God. And the crap some Christians go on with, saying Mary wasn't anyone special - no she was just the mother of the man they're worshiping!
Who cares if Jesus' remains are still here, who cares if he did marry Mary Magdelene and whether she was a former prostitute or not, we should care about living with some morals instead of judgements. But I guess people like them will never get it and just see us as 'heathens'.
One thing I don't get about the current debate over whether it's Jesus' tomb or not is that they say the name on the tomb is Yesua yet I leant at school that his real name was Yoshua Ben Yosef. It's possible of course that some translator along the line changed but it's an odd discrepancy