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Originally Posted by beren
I explained before on other threads that religions are man made forms of slavery and control. That is the very thing Jesus Christ was fighting against.
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I think it's a made up story.
Like, Paul's writings predate the gospels by a generation, and he doesn't mention anything Jesus taught, doesn't mention a virgin birth, and really, says absolutely zilch about Jesus' life.
It stands to reason, simply logically, that if Jesus was born of a virgin, and was a great teacher, and lived a remarkable life, Paul would have deferred to Jesus teachings, and talked about his life, but he didn't even mention them. And Paul would have mentioned the virgin birth, but he didn't... Why not?
The "kingdom of god" back then was an independent Israeli state. Jesus was a kingdom of god zealot, against Roman rule, and they killed him. There were tons of people claiming to be a messiah, tons of people looking for a messiah, so it was a ripe time for a messiah.
So once everyone was long gone, like a hundred years after Jesus was dead, or so, they wrote the Jesus story, virgin birth and teachings, minimal teachings, really, and nothing really special. They say he was born of a virgin and all that, just like similar stories that had been told of other deities in other cultures.
Christianity is a false religion, it always has been.
