Explain this, humankind

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They had different agendas, as each gospel account was written to a different audience. This is uncontroversial; are you really disputing this?

And they do have story-breaking contradictions. Why is Matthew the only account that mentions dead people rising and roaming the city when Jesus died? That sure seems like an important part of the story to me, and most certainly worthy of the one sentence that it takes to express. If you were reading four different accounts of a mugging and one of them said there were a bunch of zombies around but nobody else mentioned them, wouldn't you find that a bit unbelievable?

Not if you've been indoctrinated to believe it in the first place. But again, why should anyone believe four anonymous contradicting accounts of a cult leader rising from the dead? It's only compelling if you already believe it.

How many people have you converted from non-believers to Christians? Why do you think it's so hard to convince people who weren't brought up in the church?

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Or aliens copied 3rd century Rome.

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And they do have story-breaking contradictions. Why is Matthew the only account that mentions dead people rising and roaming the city when Jesus died? That sure seems like an important part of the story to me, and most certainly worthy of the one sentence that it takes to express. If you were reading four different accounts of a mugging and one of them said there were a bunch of zombies around but nobody else mentioned them, wouldn't you find that a bit unbelievable?

Either the others didn't have enough paper to do so, knowledge of it, or didn't see it as important. Matthew has already written it down anyway.

How many people have you converted from non-believers to Christians? Why do you think it's so hard to convince people who weren't brought up in the church?

Most of my Christian friends including my girlfriend were non believers who converted. I, personally, stopped practicing Christianity for a period of my life before re-examining my faith again and realising that yeah, it was rational and held up.

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Either the others didn't have enough paper to do so, knowledge of it, or didn't see it as important. Matthew has already written it down anyway.

It sure seems like God could have remedied all of those, as the harmony of the Bible is often mis-cited as another miracle.

Most of my Christian friends including my girlfriend were non believers who converted.

I don't believe you, because Christians have a habit of embellishing their stories. Every "former non-believer" I've ever met were really just non-practicing Christians who had been indoctrinated but fell away then later reaffirmed their faith for social reasons.

I've never heard a good rational reason based to believe any of it. You could change that, but I don't think it's a challenge that can be fulfilled because people don't believe in religion for rational reasons, the do it for social reasons.

It's a big reason why most people stay in the religion they were indoctrinated into: otherwise they'll lose their social network and become ostracized. It's why people join a religion: they want that social network.

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Is The Rapture threatening us with a good time?

Also, I didn't know the difference between the rapture and the second coming of Jesus so thanks for the info!

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To Francis from Left 4 Dead, there is no difference between a zombie and a vampire.

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It's like The Canterbury Tales in space. It's four books, but the first one stands on its own.

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That's simply not true, unitarians disagree with the trinity thing.

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That 10% is doing a lot of work here

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If they’re “intelligent” then I think yes. “God’s image” is a reference of conscious, loving, and powerful. They would have original sin if they evolved out of a biological gauntlet like we did and had to fear constantly because it was the only way for their species to survive amongst all the predatory life around them.

As a buddhist evolutionary psychologist might put it, they would have dukkha nature because a default state of dissatisfied craving would be the thing that drove them to keep worrying after their bellies were full.

Their civilization would have taken them to new environments beyond their Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness, requiring them to “work” instead of just following their instinctual programming.

So they would have had their own ejection from their own Eden, into the world of mortality.

They would have left the effortless Tao of their original nature. They would be like Amazonian tree frogs living in glass boxes solving simple puzzles to get food pellets. Capable, but horrified and missing something they never consciously knew.

We all must pass through this phase of awkward separation as we emerge from nature into civilization.

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Look, if they did that to Jesus they will do the same or worse to you without batting an eye.

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Maybe we need to give an offering of Viagra if we want Jesus to come again.

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If all successful civilizations believe in something isomorphic to the Pythagorean theorem, then this is evidence that it’s real.

God works the same way.

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Strange to me to our Asimov and Heinlein in the same genre. That’s like when I start Spotify Radio from Cheryl Crow and get Metallica and Green Day because Spotify thinks I’m looking for “90s music”

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If I die, don’t let those bastards eat me!

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So... Zombie apocalypse it is.

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Thomson died for our spin

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Did they crucify women back then?

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I disagree. I believe because I’ve witnessed miracles.