The myth goes, as I understand it, that Jesus died on a Friday night and rose on Sunday morning, so he seems to have only been dead for 36 hours or a day and a half at best.

I’ve head it said that he spent the time he was dead actually in Hell.  He may not have liked the place much so that’s why he cut his time short there.  So, there are some who would say that Jesus wasn’t actually dead during this time.

And then there’s the question of whether Jesus even existed before he was conceived unto Mary.  If Jesus was actually “dead” between his death and resurrection, does this then give us a god who pops in and out of existence willy-nilly?

And, of course, since Jesus is only one aspect of the Trinity, this means that the trinity might at worst have been a duality at times.

I’m sure that there are Biblical apologists who can explain this fun stuff in detail with ideas that they’ve pulled out of their butts.  I probably would have made a good apologist if I could ever have mustered the slightest sense of credulity to this bullshit.

~ Steve

If he ever even existed.

He’s not up in the clouds watching you.

He’s not putting on his blood dipped robes getting ready to come down for a final judgement.

You are not talking to him telepathically.  The person you are talking to is imaginary.

You don’t have a personal relationship with him.  You are having a personal relationship your idea of him.  You are in fact having a personal relationship with an idea with imaginary attributes encompassed entirely within your own mind.

He supposedly said “Surely I come quickly”.  It’s now been 2000 years.  If the Biblical accounting of time is accurate (it isn’t), this is fully one third of the entire age of the universe.  Even a god with a different sense of time would have to realize that he’s stretched the definition of “quickly” beyond any reasonable bounds by now.

He is dead.

He’s not coming back.

Ever.

He probably would have performed a miracle…that is, provided some evidence, that he was who he said he was.  He did this plenty for Thomas, after all.

This is assuming that he Christian vision of Jesus has some basis in reality, which it almost certainly does not.

~ Steve

religiousragings:

O.O

Do you really have to ask?

Of course, if Doctor Who is real, the world has to worry about constant alien annihilation, but with the doctor on the job, I wouldn’t worry too much.  And if he fails (a blasphemous proposition, I admit), the worst that could happen is that we will all, like, die.

But if Christianity is real, that means that by far and away the vast majority of people alive today and throughout history will or are already burning in eternal torment, while those who do manage to make it to heaven will be spending eternity with the likes of Jerry Falwell and the dudes who used to torture people during the Spanish Inquisition.

And in one of those realities, I have a chance of eventually getting a sonic screwdriver.

So, honestly, there isn’t really a choice here, is there?

~ Steve

Thanks for your comments.  I hope the day comes when you can stop acting, and that your stepmother and father will still accept you anyway.

Personally, even when I was growing up and felt that Jesus was probably a real person, I always thought that the story of his birth was bullshit.  It felt, and still feels, too contrived, and just gives me the impression of a wholly made-up story that was tacked on after the fact because it sounded good.  It’s historically inaccurate, and logically ludicrous.  Even if there is some historical figure behind the Jesus myth, I’m convinced that the entire birth thing was fully fabricated.

~ Steve