your 1st course of action should be to see who is funding these "Scientists". Why Jesus of Nazareth always gets the brunt of religious criticism always baffles me. Why don't researchers spend time on Mohammed, or the Buddha?
what difference would it make if anyone had a mystical revelation, or a "vision", really. It's not lilke someone is saying "hey, I had a vision that xyz was going to happend....go make pipe bombs and blow yoursleves up"...wait, that's what the radical islam says....sorry....
LD going for the un-PC! What will doodiehead think??
"apocalyptic prophet" and "wacko nutcase" aren't the same thing, though. I think there's ample evidence that Jesus and many of those who followed him did believe the kingdom was coming -- Paul's mandate that celibacy is best, for instance. And LFFB is right that turning the other cheek is not all that pragmatic in many instances, though that doesn't mean it's not noble.
But the bottom line is that anything and everything he says has one purpose -- to mock Luke Ford. Reading any other conclusions into it is more than what is intended, I suspect.
BTW, my grandfather the priest used to have religious ecstacies while praying. Manic-depression runs in the family, too, and he's displayed more and more manic mannerisms the older he gets.
Tut tut... Paul also recommended that young widows re-marry and said that very few actually had the capability of being celibate, as well as recommending that people marry early, and that married couples not deprive each other...
Also, Christ did preach some sort of war here and there, e.g. 'do any of you have swords'. Also, his rather violent outbursts at the temple which is either retold twice or happened twice. Of course, those are prickly bits, and mentioning of them may open more doors than it closes, LOL.
Certainly things apocalyptic were a big part of the early church, but I think most of them were pretty, well, satisfied is the wrong word, at the destruction of Jerusalem, as shown by the fact that the faith continued on.
ANYWAY! You really can't say with any certainty either way, frankly, but this article strikes me as trying too hard.
And, yes, he was probably joking, but I'm sure other people will draw the same conclusions.
And, I'm secretly jealous because he got to guest blog and I didn't, cos I'm presumptuous like that.
That's why I tossed in the 'doodie head' thing, btw. Trying to toss in some humor.
Oh, and as for the Uncle... Hm. Well, that's one... I've known at least a hundred Christians well enough to ask about their religious life, though, and none of them have ever mentioned it... certainly labelling it as the Great Underpinning of All Religion is a bit odd.
I thought LF was mad at LFFB. So I would be jealous, too. Also it strikes me as kind of an odd post for Your Moral Leader. Maybe that's just me? 'cause isn't Luke Ford Jewish? And not even in the I'm Jewish because my parents were Jewish but in the I chose to be Jewish way? I'm just sayin'
I don't know why I said 'tut tut', but it seems dishonest to change it now...
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