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Yorktown

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5. While your opinion has merits, my hunch is on some Jesus hippie guru
Mon Sep 28, 2015, 06:07 AM
Sep 2015

Cults coalesce more easily around some charismatic figure.

It's more difficult for a leaderless group to be fired up.

So, ther must have been some kind of guru at some point,

and when building up their ideal 'Jesus', the group probably buit upon some % of the guru.

Anyway, it's academic in the dismissive sense of the term: we'll never know.


And it's not that important to begin with:

Christianity will end up dying under the weight of its vagueness and contradictions.


Unlike the healthy belief in the Holy Flying Spaghetti Monster (may pesto be upon it)

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How do we know Jesus was not gay? Yorktown Sep 2015 #1
I don't know that he existed at all. I certainly don't believe in the mythical Jesus. beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #2
Well, there probably was a proto-Jesus and a proto-muhamad Yorktown Sep 2015 #3
I dont know if that's true, in the case of Jesus. Warren DeMontague Sep 2015 #4
While your opinion has merits, my hunch is on some Jesus hippie guru Yorktown Sep 2015 #5
I totally disagree. Lucky Luciano Sep 2015 #6
Splitter!! (nt) jeff47 Sep 2015 #9
Some members of my family agree with you Yorktown Sep 2015 #10
You're right that we'll never know. I sure dont. Warren DeMontague Sep 2015 #14
I suspect JC is a composite. onager Sep 2015 #7
Persecuted for his faith.. mountain grammy Sep 2015 #8
If it ever happens to me again I may get fired too. beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #18
Uh yeah. Last year we had an interim manager Heddi Sep 2015 #11
I remember that one. Iggo Sep 2015 #12
Yep, I remember. I lost my job partially because I wouldn't join the prayer meetings at work. beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #16
well our now-tombstoned friend seemed to think Heddi Sep 2015 #20
You said it. beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #21
Religious harassment is as vile as sexual harassment Heddi Sep 2015 #22
It was karma. beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #23
PREYED is a misspelling, yet it fits Skittles Sep 2015 #24
I do that sometimes! beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #25
well like I said Skittles Sep 2015 #26
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Yep. beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #17
I've never run into this Cartoonist Sep 2015 #15
That's good to hear. beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #19
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