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"All the truth passes through three stages :
First it is ridiculed.
Second it is violently opposed.
Third it is accepted as being self-evident"
Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The Bible portrays God as a bearded old man that acts like a stern father or a king on a throne, because Jesus and others used the father metaphor for God and the kingdom metaphor for heaven. A metaphor is not meant to be literal truth, but people, past and present, are saying that they are the literal truth. It is time for people to stop doing it. It distorts the truth, and it is misleading.

Jesus said, “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don't enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.”

The Bible portrays God as everything (alpha and omega), and as an old man in the sky. It is just one of many, many, many contradictions in the Bible. Even with all the contradictions, many people still insist that it is the literal truth. If anyone deserves to burn forever, it is people that say they believe that the myths are true. They have no regard for the truth, and they make it so difficult for the real truth to be known.
In Christianity, neither morality nor religion comes into contact with reality at any point. Friedrich Nietzsche

Watching over us: The whole concept of a man/God in the sky is very egotistical. Only a life form that is really full of itself (mankind) would think that another life form would devote its life to their life. The truth is, no one is watching you, and you would not want it any other way.
The truth is, no one would really want the myths to be the truth.

Everyone really wants a little privacy. People that say “I can feel God watching over me” really give me the willies. That means the God they envision watches them in the bathroom and when they are having sex. The same people think the same thing about loved ones that have passed away. I sure hope my mom and grandmother are not watching me. I know they are living their own new life.

People really do not think about the things they say. No one would really want anyone watching them all the time, especially not a judgmental old man, or a parent. The only time they would like it is when they are in trouble. It is just a myth, and thank God it is."

From "The Truth About God" section at
http://www.truthcontest.com/entries/the-present-with-religion/

This post was edited by Eti_fr on Sep 29 2012 05:22am
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Sep 29 2012 11:51am
dont mind them lol they are mad because they dont understand and thus are blinded
Great read btw :)
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dont mind them lol they are mad because they dont understand and thus are blinded
Great read btw  :)


Hehe I don't mind them don't worry :)

Here is a quote from "The Truth about Jesus Christ" section from http://www.truthcontest.com/entries/the-present-with-religion/ :

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The virgin birth: Mary probably made up the story of God impregnating her so that she would not be an outcast or stoned to death for being a teenage, unwed mother. She could have been raped by a Roman soldier or some other pervert as were thousands of young women. Back then, the women were penalized more than the rapists. She could have just told a big lie and started Christianity. She would have had to tell Jesus that he was the son of God to keep the lie going, so he grew up really believing God was his father. Jesus was not lying when he said he was the son of God, because he just believed what his mother told him. This inspired him and connected him to the collective unconscious, what he called the Holy Spirit. This gave him the ability to channel all the truth that he did. He looked for the truth in the present, because he believed God, his father, would try to communicate with him. Just thinking this opened up the door to the universal mind and the truth and the life. Jesus was very open-minded and brave.

It is a good example of how a lie can lead to the truth.

The empty tomb:
People say, what about the empty tomb? The Romans could have just taken his body and buried it in an unknown spot, so his grave did not turn into a rallying point for his followers. They usually buried criminals in a common grave with other criminals, and that is what Jesus was to them, so that is probably what happened. There is no reason why they would have treated him differently than any other criminal or troublemaker.

The story of a rich person giving his family tomb to Jesus does not ring true, because no one wanted to show the Romans that they liked Jesus; it could have gotten them in trouble. Jesus did not have any wealthy followers that would stand up for him in any way.

If the rich guy liked Jesus so much, where was he at his trial? If he would not risk showing he was with Jesus to save his life, it makes no sense that he would do it after he was already dead.

The Resurrection: People then say, what about the followers that saw him walking down the road, saw his wounds, talked to him and ate with him after he was supposed to be dead? Why would he eat like a mortal?

Someone could have bribed the guards and got him off the cross before he died, or the Romans let him go, so they would not create a martyr, and he was just leaving town when some of his followers saw him.

He may have not been hurt as bad as the story says, and it may have been longer than three days when he showed up. Some people say that Jesus went to India and lived to a ripe old age and is buried somewhere around Katmandu. The Bhagwan is where I heard that story; search the internet and check it out for yourself. I do not know if it is true, but it makes more sense than the accepted story.

The story: The resurrection story comes from just one place: Paul, and he was not even there, so he could have just made it up to help make the new religion he was promoting more successful.  Paul reveals the most truth and the most BS.

I do not know what happened. No one does, and that is the real truth.
There is no evidence of what happened, just conflicting stories from dubious sources, but the things I state above are possible, and single-sex conception (immaculate conception) and rising from the dead are not.

If Jesus actually did any miracles, like raise the dead, the people that saw them would have followed him and not feared anyone for any reason. The Bible says hundreds of people saw him do miracles. If that was true, he would have had a lot more than twelve followers, and they would not have all acted like they did not know him or betray him as the Bible says they did. It just does not ring true, does it?

The truth is the truth, and Jesus says it is the truth that sets you free.
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