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Atheist
The truth is so far from what the church is teaching today that if Jesus was alive today I think he would be an atheist.
Sure, if he respected the truth, Jesus might well be an atheist today. In fact, I've wondered if he was an atheist back in his day knowing that what he was saying was a lot of baloney.The truth is so far from what the church is teaching today that if Jesus was alive today I think he would be an atheist.
Sure, but he could be a secular Jew like an atheist friend of mine.Don't be silly, he'd be Jewish just like the last time.
I wonder if some people are waiting for him to return arm in arm with JFK Jr.Maybe he'll turn up yet...the Jews still await their prophesied Messiah.
The truth is so far from what the church is teaching today that if Jesus was alive today I think he would be an atheist.
He was no fan of institutionalized religion as we call it these days, that much is certain. Though he also seems to have treated people's social labels as largely irrelevant to how he treated them personally. I don't think he would care a great deal about "Christianity", but he would care a great deal about Christians... and Jews, and Buddhists, and Muslims, and atheists....Making light of god to the Jews would be blasphemy. Something about not taking the lord's name in vein?
If a wandering Christian mystic came in from the desert and began attacking modern Christianity claiming to be the son of god with no material means of support , he would get 'crucified'.
In our enlightened times he would be committed to an institution for mental evaluation. If he caused trouble in a mega church or the Vatican he would be arrested.
In the context of the gospel Jesus I do not see how anyone can think modern Certainty is something Jesus would approve of.
Don't be silly. Its Elvis.I wonder if some people are waiting for him to return arm in arm with JFK Jr.Maybe he'll turn up yet...the Jews still await their prophesied Messiah.
Sadly that is so true it hurts.Making light of god to the Jews would be blasphemy. Something about not taking the lord's name in vein?
If a wandering Christian mystic came in from the desert and began attacking modern Christianity claiming to be the son of god with no material means of support , he would get 'crucified'.
In our enlightened times he would be committed to an institution for mental evaluation. If he caused trouble in a mega church or the Vatican he would be arrested.
In the context of the gospel Jesus I do not see how anyone can think modern Certainty is something Jesus would approve of.
You might be right. The Jesus we read about in the Gospels never recognized any spiritual authority, and since many of today's spiritual authorities espouse a God, then I think Jesus would be loathe to agree with them. At the very least Jesus would come up with a different God than what most people today believe in just like he did in his day (if we can believe the Gospel writers).The truth is so far from what the church is teaching today that if Jesus was alive today I think he would be an atheist.
Yes. Jesus would "reform" the religion he presumably created refusing to join any sect founded by anybody else. He just hated to admit that anybody could trump him on any religious matter, and if he did agree with anybody, then he would claim he had the idea first.He'd certainly be a 'None.' No religious affiliation.
But more like Joseph Smith. None of you fucks got it right, I'm the only one with the Word.
Jesus might at first prefer atheists because they belong to no religion, and he might see them as easier to convert than those who follow some other religious leader. But if he has trouble getting some atheists to believe what he's saying, then he'd probably respond with fury telling them they're going to hell.I'm not sure he would be an atheist, but I'm pretty sure he'd be disgusted with his contemporary followers and would probably prefer the company of the atheists who I know personally. I would assume that Jesus would be bothered by all the godly ones who are always asking Jesus or his father for help t hem with their mundane problems. At least we atheists try to solve our own problems without calling on a higher power for help.