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In reply to the discussion: do you believe there was a historical figure the Jesus story was built on? [View all]roguevalley
(40,656 posts)Jesus was real and taught with integrity and courage. That was remembered and his death was traumatic enough for those who loved him to remember him to history. The man who didn't know him, Paul was the one who festooned him with miracles and stuff. That is his burden, not that of Jesus.
I am as disgusted with the way dogma has sullied his teachings but to compare him to fuckers like Koresh or Jones even in jest is awful.
Consider how the founding fathers have been fucked over the by the right trying to appropriate what they said and did. Are those individuals to blame for that? Are they responsible for the idiots trying to make Tom Paine and Sam Adams one of them? How is it that Jesus can be heaped with scorn and bullshit for the actions of others and not them or anyone else who is butched by the actions and deeds of others? I believe he lived and that the gist of his teachings are framed enough in the Bible that I can know what he wanted for us to do to live in harmony with each other. That is enough for me. He has been a constant in my life forever and I love him intensely. I would not be me without his teachings.