Seems the purported crucifixion of this Jesus feller is VERY similar to the Abu-Ghraib abuses/atrocities. Each is a case of an evil empire torturing/killing/terrorizing the inhabitants of a colony, which the evil empire has invaded and raped over.

To those numb skulls who say, "but Jesus weren't no terrorist", how do you know that the persons at Abu Ghraib were/are? Just because Paul "Pontius Pilate" Bremer said they were? Pathetic. You would have been amongst the cheering crucifixion crowd back in the day. Your great grand pappies probably lived for lynching parties too.

And to all the "good" christians who support such atrocities by your good "christian" soldiers in Iraq, I as an Atheist am truly saddened that there is, in fact, no god -- particularly a just and righteous one -- as he/she/it would consign every last one of you hypocritical, blood-thirsty, supposed "christians" to the lowest plane of Hell. You're a bunch of squealing war pigs.

Reverend Wright was right in saying, "God damn America."

And as for Easter, it started out as a Pagan spring festival. Like everything else in christian mythology and ritual, it was stolen/co-opted from Pagan tradition.

What's most hilarious about christianity is that it was co-opted by the empire that it railed against and that killed its savior and main prophet. The fact that this irony is either lost or ignored by your kind speaks volumes about your death cult.

Jesus didnt really rail agaisnt Rome, some of his followers might have but they didnt do much more than talk. He mostly attacked the religous leaders of the day.

but they didnt do much more than talk

about jesus being at the head of a new Kingdom of Israel.

“good "christian" soldiers in Iraq”

There are a lot of non Christian soldiers there, even a lot of atheist, who support such atrocities

And since you prove that you have no idea what Christians or Christianity teach but simply rely on what you see/hear on TV of in some magazine, realize you are simply blowing ineffective smoke.

It doesn't matter what religion teaches, it matters what people do.

If someone claims to belong to a peaceful, loving religion and then is out there killing people, there's more than a little cognitive dissonance going on. How can you think anyone doesn't know about Christianity? We're not talking about an obscure cult here. If you live in America you're surrounded by Christians and their 'teachings'. Trust me, you don't have to sit in a church or read the bible cover to cover to have a perfectly good working knowledge of the religion.

Apparently you do......since you prove not to understand it.

TruettCollins:

Apparently you do......since you prove not to understand it.

And by not understanding it, you, of course, mean that they don't agree with you. The biggest evidence of the myth of christianity is the behavior of its' followers.

by not understanding it I mean that they take many different divisions many of who are not Christian and lump them together and claim they understand, instead of simply letting the Bible be their guide in deciding what is and is not Christian, as the Bible says there are many who claim to be but are not.

You’re using the failings of humanity to condemn a philosophy. Christianity promotes principles that are undeniably good (love your neighbor, help the weak, etc.), but for humans, unfortunately, the bar is set high when you ask them to be kind. It's safe to say all believers fail at some point.That still doesn’t change the religion’s message. If you attend a church service, it’s hard to see how the religion itself calls for the kind of bloodlust you describe. Even the crusades -- which critics tend to point out as if they happened last week – were indisputably at odds with what the religion preaches. I respect your atheism and have even entertained it myself -- who can't? -- but your post comes across as unhinged and irrational. Probably meant to get a reaction, which it has.

One of my favorite world views is the one taken by one of the Voyager spacecrafts when it was near Neptune and signaled to point the camera at Earth and you can see this blue little pin dot in a huge field of black. It was the late Carl Sagan's idea. It gives me this satisfying and enormous sense of reality; washing away all of humanities religious conceits and secular squabbles; reducing them to the significance of a benign virus. This planet will continue to exist if we extinguish our own lives and no gods will come to the rescue.

I'm a simple layman and yet when I am confronted by a religious person who questions my atheism in their smug and conceited manner I wonder how this person can fail themselves so blatantly. For instance, one of my born again buddies [who rejects me now as the devil] would start the argument with 'How can you be so arrogant? What make you believe the creation isn't true?' and I would respond with the fossil record and he would say that radio carbon dating is flawed and I would say 'well nothing is perfect but are you saying that the atom bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki never happened?' Duh, what are you talking about? And I would say, 'Ya know? E=MC2? The Atomic Theory? The same in which the sun and every star in the sky would not shine? Atomic Clocks? Radio Carbon Dating?' That's when his eyes would glaze over and he'd start gibbering in tongues and yapping scripture at no one in the sky.

YA ,i have a freind who is not mentally capable of understanding simple science and facts )ciesium dating,carbon dating ,etc.)To him reality is subjective and religion is not .go figure.crux-o- fiction---very funny term.

“…they take many different divisions many of who are not Christian and lump them together and claim they understand, instead of simply letting the Bible be their guide in deciding what is and is not Christian, as the Bible says there are many who claim to be but are not.”

>>Funny how many Christians seem to believe that they have an innate ability to determine who qualifies as a true Christian and who does not. Even funnier that it always turns out that what they identify as true Christians are those whose beliefs are identical to their own…what were the odds.

Which 'divisions' do you beleive are being lumped in as Christian but really aren't, and for what reasom are you identifying them as false Christians?

"Which 'divisions' do you beleive are being lumped in as Christian but really aren't, and for what reasom are you identifying them as false Christians?"

My take on it is, if they claim to worship/believe the xtian polytheism and its deities then they are a xtian. Who cares about the infighting.

Lib. Pat.

Good post.

Koolaid tastes terrible.lol

If you want to reject the knowledge put in to all
mankind that there is more, that is your choice.
If you want to reject all Christanity that is your
Choice. All true Christians are called to do is
to present the choices and if you reject we are
to move along.