Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate?

DreamAccountant@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m an atheist, but if you read about Jesus specifically you won’t find a lot of hate.

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• Chozo@fedia.io ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The character jesus was not a real person

  I think it's generally accepted that Jesus did exist, as his baptism and crucifixion were documented by third parties at the time.

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  • Manjushri@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All that means is that a person named Jesus may have existed. But that has no bearing on events described in the Bible. It’s like saying you found a birth certificate for a Clark Kent from the 1930’s so that means Superman really existed.

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    • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well if Superman modeled itself as a true story and the Clark Kent you found was the person who inspired the story then yeah you did. It’s not Clarks fault the author lied. Historians don’t only think ‘some dude name jesus exists’. They think that the specific Jesus depicted in the bible was based on a real person. You can be agaonst religion and recognize a historical consensus.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The Jesus of history is not necessarily the same guy they wrote about. All that is known for sure is that someone named Jesus, who came from Nazareth, existed around the same time. Absolutely nothing else is linked to the name.

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  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No no you see it's only Science TM if they can use it to shit on Christians.

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