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As a side note, I don't want to offend anyone, but I can't be anything other than completely honest here. I read the Bible as a kid and I wondered why people would believe anything in it as anything other than a piece of fiction written by some obviously twisted people. I would never let my child read the Bible, its full of things like war, *detailed* animal sacrificing, eating shit, and many other horrible things. And I would ask questions about the things I had read in the Bible (like when I read Leviticus, I asked why it says that God hates certain people when I was told he loves everyone (yes, it had the words "God hates that" written many many times in it). I was told to believe what I was told and to not question things. To call this believe without understanding faith and that it was good to have faith. Well I got tired of them trying to indoctrinate me, so now what can I say, I'm a little bitter. I did some research, and to me it appears that there is absolutly zero proof for the fact that there ever even was a real Jesus. The first gospel (Mark) is dated at the earliest 70 C.E., 40 years after the death of the alleged Jesus. There is no way that whoever wrote that gospel was even alive to meet Jesus, let alone travel with him and learn things from him. There is no reference to a Jesus from any of the historians of that time, and no record of a Jesus being killed by the Roman courts. Not just that, but the Bible was assembled by men. Irenaeus of Lyon chose the 4 gospels to be in the Bible, burning many many others. So if there even was someone who had written what Jesus actually said, it was probably burned by the early church. Anyway I'm sorry to hijack this thread, maybe I should have just made a new one.
(If I have made an incorrect historical statement of some kind, please feel free to correct me, I am not infailable)
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