I think were are mature enough to discuss things, at least I hope so.
I'm against most religions, just due to the sheer amount of atrocities they have committed in the name of gods. When God becomes an excuse to kill others or commit heinous crime, to me it's completely wrong
I believe in moral over doctrines.
As for this article, I find it interesting to read, although I don't agree with most of it, even the stuff that is "against" Christianity.
I find it funny that he questions Jesus' "sayings", Jesus lived (if he lived), over 2000 years ago, what we read as his "sayings" are text written/translated by man. Most of those man have never met Jesus, in fact, most lived centuries after Jesus, some lived over a millennium after him, did you ever play the telephone game? Man are unreliable, so you cannot treat what those man said and based on that say that Jesus was a delusional lunatic. You have to take the bible with a pinch of salt (maybe a fistful).
Quote:The question is, I suppose, whether any hypothesis covers the facts so well as the Christian hypothesis. That hypothesis is that God has come down into the created universe, down to manhood ? and come up again, pulling it up with Him. The alternative hypothesis is not legend, nor exaggeration, nor the apparitions of a ghost. It is either lunacy or lies. Unless one can take the second alternative (and I can?t) one turns to the Christian theory.
I think thats where he errs the most, because he claims that anyone not choosing the Christian hypothesis is a lunatic or a liar. Not only is that arrogant, it is also closed-minded. The inability to accept that someone may have views different from your own and that those view are equally acceptable is the main problem of many fanatic religious people.