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Where were you during the "was Jeezus gay" thread?
...I've always been very intrested in the propagation of theses viral meme complexes (religions), and through my studies I've stumbled across several of these recruitment heresies over the years.
For example, it's very easy to logically prove to a devout Christian that Satan created the world (the so-called Cathar or "Rex Mundi" heresy)... similarly you can prove logically to a devout Muslim that Islam itself is a construct of the devil... similarly arguments can be made that Jesus was actually the antichrist (the Mandean or Johannite heresy) etc etc (I won't go into these here).
These logical paradox heresies were used to recruit or "initiate" people into secretive sub cults (or parallel religions in the case of the Cathar/Bogomil heresy), sort of a parasitic vampirism between viral meme complexes.
Anyway, back to the point, proving Jesus was evil in five easy steps...
First, you set up your subject by asking the simple question: Is slavery wrong?
Evangelical: Yes.
Second, you compound their assertion: Is slavery ALWAYS morally wrong?
Evangelical: Yes, always.
Third: What about the subjugation and oppression of women? Is that also always morally wrong?
Evangelical: Yes, ...always morally wrong.
Fourth: So slavery and the oppression of women are both morally indefensible as a moral absolute?
Evangelical: Yes.
Fifth: Well then Jesus must have been evil... he grew up in a culture in which women were property, a culture which was part of an empire (Rome) which was founded on slavery, yet he never once spoke out publicly against either evil?
While the Evangelical stutters through their ensuing cognitive dissonance (these arguments usually trigger the dismissal defensive response)... I like to hammer home my point with a litany of Jesus moral failings:
By tacit consent Jesus likewise condoned:
-forcible genital mutilation (circumcision)
-arranged marriages
-child molestation (girls were married at 13 in Jewish culture, often to men 10 or more years older)
-animal cruelty (animal sacrifice by slow bleeding)
-infanticide (unwanted children were often left exposed to the elements to die)
-child dispossession (all across the Roman world newborns could be disowned if their fathers didn't accept them)
-torture (standard practice among the Romans)
-capital punishment
-child sacrifice (many, many religions partook of this abomination: including early Judaism)
-forcible castration (eunuchs)
...a first century Jew living in Israel would have been all too familiar with all of these things, yet Jesus never spoke out against any of these things. Obviously it takes a man of low moral character to fail to criticize such egregious moral outrages.
But in case you want specific proof, recall the instance when Jesus healed the child of the Roman centurion (think that's right).... Jesus didn't ask anything of the Roman. So even when it would have cost him nothing but the effort of making an utterance, he didn't take the opportunity to call on a Roman indebted to him to free his slaves.
As a professional freeloader (he didn't work for three years) Jesus undoubtedly accepted a free meal in the Roman centurions house... couldn't he cast a moments thought to the suffering of those who prepared his meal and served him?
He also spoke out against widows remarrying: that whole married forever in heaven bullshit.
Which, in first century Palestine would condemn a widowed women and her children to a life of destitute poverty (this is akin to Ghandi's failure to renounce the caste system). This is just unforgivable, not simply because of the fundamental inequality involved, but because at the time it amounted to saying that an oppressed victim of child molestation (arranged marriage, raped continuously from 13 onwards) had no right to seek a love-match marriage, therefore condemning these poor women to lives of loneliness and poverty.
Come on Evangelical Christians... admit it... Jesus was a right bastard.
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