Jesus was like Charles Manson
 

Ok, I said this in the office the other day, and some of the brainwashed freaks attacked me about it. Does anyone agree?

I said that Jesus (assuming he was a real man who existed and not the personification of many incidents) was promoting idol worship, mainly of his "father" which was in-turn idol worship of himself.

in Judah (today isreal), and in the Jewish religion, it is forbidden to have an image of "god" or "Their god". Jesus shit all over their god by promoting the images of him. This coupled with the fact that Rome was an empire of complete tolerance to many cultures and religions, and christ was completely in-tolerant of the recognition of any god but his, was the reason they strung him up.

So I said he was an egotistical psyco like Charlie Manson...was that wrong?

-RVega

You are mainly wrong, but there is some truth in what you say.

Jesus spoke of love, tolerence, forgiveness, acceptance.

I think we can be pretty sure that if he was around today, he would be neither a republican or a fundie. In fact there is one story about him going apeshit over what people were doing in a temple.

Kinda think a lot of what is being done in his name today would drive him apeshit......

Maybe you *are* right ....

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Thanks for the partial support on this.

But See, Understanding the roman empire at the time I'd have to disagree with the love and harmony B.S. I think that was only a tool to make himself a "good guy" in the eyes of his followers. Many "cults" preach love and peace, but are created to feed the cult's ego-centric creators control over it's members.

All that love, tolerence, forgiveness, acceptance bullshit was already the theme of the Roman empire (as much as people would like to think it was a brutal and in-human era).

Jesus wanted on thing and one thing only...power. otherwise he would have been preaching buddism, or one of the other 900 religions accepted and worshiped openly at the time throughout the Roman empire and in Rome as well. The difference was that Jesus's teachings was the only one at the time that felt it needed to impose it's belief on others.

Christians were persecuted for hundreds of years after that and met in secret with hoods like the Klu klux Klan (notice the similar anti-tolerances of both). For this very reason. Later they would do the same to torture and execute non-believers.

Ok, What the hell is this, the history channel...This is turning into an Iron Maiden song.

-RVega

I would have to agree, when you read the bible and more importantly, what other people wrote about early christians during the time, you truly get the cult impression, at least I do anyways.