Non-Logical-Idea-Guy said:Oh my god, so I come on this site post a thread and go to sleep hoping that some thiests will give me a mature answer and atheists reply likewise. To be honest, this thread has made me disgusted with myself for being an atheist. i Am AN ATHEIST AND I TRY TO CHALLENGE CHRISTIANITY BUT I TRY TO DO IT IN A DECENT WAY AND THEN THE BLOODY ATHEISTS COME INTO THIS THREAD, AND JUST DENY JESUS EXISTED BLA BLA BLAAA. SO WHY DON'T YOU GUYS STILL NOT BELIEVE BUT IF YOU ARE GOING TO CHALLENGE WHAT YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN ACTUALLY DO IT WITH PROOF OR A DECENT QUESTION WHICH IS WHAT I THINK I HAD! I apologize to you Provita for my fellow atheists ignorance
te whole motif of Jesus as 'Son of God' is an appropriation from the pagan Orphic myth of Dionysos as the'Son of God'
now listen up----rhePREpatiarchal understanding is that Dionysos is son of the GODDESS, as were all te pagan god-men.......tey symbolized an asociation of meaningful corelations, te Sun, how it seemed to te ancients--nd us!!--to sink/die into the 'underworld' and rise/bereborn at dawn, reach its zennith, and so on....Also the cycles of Nature, Also the sacred Fruit/sacrament that also came to be a certain time of year, was harvested/sacrificed. ingested by the Celebrants and then 'resurrected' as teeater lost sense of hirself and was 'possessed' by te 'god of Nature'---in te muh more anceint prepatriarchal astream tis 'god' was te Son/Lover/Consort of the Goddess, the ever living ever dying ever regenerating Son/Lover
what Christians did was to pinch this idea and....HISTORICIZE it.....!!
mae out tat teir 'god-man' was actual human being , who actualy lifed at A time, and ded at A time, etc etc. understanding?
So that is why their myth is abusurd and confusing and un Fruit full....!