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The Party of Christian Values

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  • Religion is a centuries-long game of telephone. Jesus never wrote anything.

    Then why the hell did you bother asking for chapter and verse? Classic apologetics fan; ask for an example or evidence and then equivocate when you get exactly what you asked for.

    Trying to dismiss the message by poking holes in the secondhand accounts of his fan club is misguided

    Considering that the only thing left of the "enlightened" prophet are the secondhand accounts of his fan club, I'm not sure exactly what you think "the message" is...

    I'm dismissive of "the message" not because it's easy to poke holes in the theology and historicity of the Christian bible (although it obviously is), but because there is no consistent theology or message that can traced anyone with any sort of reliability. If that's all there is to glean from exhaustive apologetics and exegesis of "the teachings of Jesus," I won't bother to go to a religion or guess "WWJD" for that; there are plenty of better moral frameworks and more consistent belief systems out there.

    • Then why the hell did you bother asking for chapter and verse?

      To point out that, even after the game of telephone, it still doesn't say what you claim it does.

      I won't bother to go to a religion or guess "WWJD" for that; there are plenty of better moral frameworks and more consistent belief systems out there.

      Which of those moral frameworks encourages antagonizing the beliefs of strangers?

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