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SketchSepahi rated 6 months ago- Yes, most certainly. Why not? I am an atheist for Jesus. I am also an atheist for Gandhi, an atheist for the Dalai Lama, an atheist for Laotse, an atheist for prot, an atheist for Buddha, an atheist for that little what's-his-name fellow in "Pay it Forward" etc. etc. I like these messages - all of them - but how come that the intent underlying the message is never enough for people? How come they require the messenger to have historical veracity and they crave there to be something more to the message, some grand scheme, some cosmic secret that the universe was made especially for them and if they just believe in that they attain exclusive rights to The Ultimate Truth? How come they think that invoking the name of their messenger gives them the right - no the duty - to disregard the very message when they encounter other people with other messengers? I can only conclude that to be a religious person, is to miss the point of the religious message entirely. The tale of the three house-building pigs does have a very real morale but it is decidedly not that pigs and wolves are capable of speech in real life. The same can be said of mythical/religious parables.
- IamJacksSN09 rated 20 months ago
- It's a cool concept, but he misunderstands certain things. To say that Jesus was only a theist because thats what everyone else was is a foolish assumption to make. Atheism was around for quite some time before Christ in the Eastern religions, and Epicurus (5th Century BC) is considered the first Atheist. If Jesus was something, it was that he was everything that everyone was not. Jesus never rebelled against any attribute of Yahweh, just the followers of Yahweh that continuously strayed away from the Scriptures. This is evident throughout the entire Old Testament and it was when Jesus was born. According to Christianity, a lot, not all, of the Jews were following themselves, not Yahweh. "They worship me in vain;their teachings are but rules taught by men." If one examines the portion from Matthew 5 that Dawkins quotes Jesus rebels nothing against Yahweh. "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy." The love your neighbor is from the book of Leviticus, and the "hate your enemy" is not anywhere in the Bible. It is a misconception the people at the time had, something Jesus thankfully cleared up. Also, the "eye for an eye" original intent in the Old Testament was for a standard for a court type system. It equaled punishment between the rich and the poor. Unfortunately it was taken to be a kind of revenge from person to person, which Jesus clears up in this section as well. It is clear throughout Jesus' teachings that he was not against Yahweh. "Do not think I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but fulfill them."
