What's So Great About Outlandish Stories?

So there are some claims that the tomb of Jesus has been dug up. This is going to be presented by James Cameron on the Discovery Channel, so I'm probably going to laugh my ass off since other "historical" ventures by this man would in no way be accepted by the scientific community. Anyways, I looked into how some Christians were swallowing this, since the theory has been around for a good while that Jesus was not resurrected. One of the most startling things that I found is this at a site fully devoted to Jesus being resurrected:

The importance of Christ's resurrection will be seen when we consider that if he rose the gospel is true, and if he rose not it is false. His resurrection from the dead makes it manifest that his sacrifice was accepted.

So, if Jesus was did not come back from his tomb, then f*ck everything. This is the one thing that made Jesus who he was. Not the really smart stuff that he said, not the way he lived his life, not his level of spirituality, but this one event. Are the things that are natural not enough to believe that a smart guy is smart? Is myth all that is really important? If that's the case, I am deeply saddened. And about him rising being proof of the sacrifice being accepted...did every sacrifice ever made come back to life? And what about all those people scattered throughout the Bible that were risen from the dead or ascended into Heaven before they died? What makes them not the "only begotten son of God" or another "Messiah"?

If the myth is all important, then today's generations are no better than the ones Jesus taught to. All they wanted were signs and miracles, so many didn't care about what he was talking about. So many Christians claim other religions are frivolous and have no real basis in fact, but if these myths and magic tricks are all that Christianity is truly concerned about.... And it's been the same throughout the millennia. People don't marvel nearly as much at those who have been enlightened (regardless of religion) or have devoted their lives to Jesus' actual teachings (as far as I know, Franciscan monks do a very good job of this, even if they were founded by a pothead (that's what St. Francis acted like in this movie we watched in Core 4)) as they do to "miracles" of Jesus or Mary (She wasn't that great. God could have chosen any virgin, get over it. And she had more kids, she wasn't the "forever virgin" goddess of Christianity.) appearing on some stupid piece of garlic bread. Guess what? Stuff like this happen a lot in nature and coincidence. Abe Lincoln appears a lot too...as do cats that look like Hitler. My point is that people are putting too much stock into the coincidental and in myth rather than the morals and lessons that are taught.

And going back to the whole Mary thing...why did he have to be born of a virgin? If that makes him special, then there are a lot of reptile messiahs we've been ignoring. It's just something else that the writers of the gospels went back and wrote down so that more people would believe in the "prophesies" and more readily accept their view on what Christianity should be. Good ol' Mark was one of the few gospel writers that didn't preoccupy himself as much as the rest with backing up Jesus' divinity and whatnot with prophesies. He wrote down what was (after a few decades, so some of it is sure to be shady), not so much what "should have" happened.






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