"Jesus’s gesture of attacking some Roman soldiers, along with a couple of his followers armed with two swords – one of them used to slice off a Roman’s ear – did not bring the result he expected. He had convinced himself such a move on his part would be the signal to God to start the series of earth-transforming miracles that would destroy the Roman Empire and bring back the freedom and glory of the Jewish people. The Romans arrested him, brought him to a cursory trial, and condemned him to death by crucifixion – the punishment prescribed for insurrection by Roman law. The punishment was duly carried out. (As Ehrman says, the body was probably flung on the ground somewhere to be devoured by birds and worms and scavenging beasts.)"
I recommend reading the rest of it at How Jesus Became God by Bart D. Ehrman, HarperCollins, New York, 2014, 404 pages
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Imagine the extreme stupidity required to believe the Magic Jeebus Man was the son of the Magic Man.
Imagine the incurable insanity of the fucking morons who believe the decomposing corpse of the Magic Jeebus Man was magically resurrected to become a zombie or whatever.
Christians think they can throw out of all of reality even though that's impossible. Reality isn't going anywhere. Reality does not care about the cowardly fucktards who fear reality.
I never met a Christian who wasn't a stupid fucking asshole.
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
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