titans&bucs&bearsohmy!

And how else would we name super bowls?

Preserved Greek rationalism, which is the entire basis for Western Civilization. On top of that, they implemented legal theories still in use to this day. Also, their advances in architecture and engineering would not be matched for centuries. That and toga parties.

The part that boils down to "love the neighbor" and generally don't be a d!ck is good. It's been done in pretty much every ethical system from Hammurabi to confucious to the Dude in the big Lebowski. It's the whole I am the son of God, I am the way and the light, I am the path to salvation, but hey, nobody bother to write any of this down part that I find a bit weak at best.

The fact that there is zero contemporary evidence of such. How did you conclude he did? Because some guy wrote a book about it a century or more later?

No I won't. I have my faults, but rank hypocrisy isn't one of em.

My thing is this. Most guys here (you very much so HT) are very skeptical of any news source or story. And fair enough. They've shown their bias and lies. But you are far less skeptical of an ancient book with ridiculously obvious bias and holes. I personally think religion is a natural stage of human progression that we have outgrown and should leave behind. The west more or less has.

Just yesterday I did a lesson on Easter. Ever try explaining that to people who have never heard it before? Well, you see there was Jesus, and he died, and then Rose from the dead, and now we have this rabbit who brings us chocolate. I mean, their holidays are every bit as silly, but damn.

I think that every time I go to the third world. Some of my wife's family for example. I'd eat a pointy bamboo stick if I had to live like that. But most of em are happier than rich Americans I know. A lot of it has to do with what your expectations out of life are I guess.

Of course not. Much of the message is good old common sense. But then, the same is true of Aesop's fables. Doesn't mean I'm gonna go down to the tax free Temple of the tortise and the hare and theow down half my Sunday and 10% of my income though.

Here's one of many. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/mithras/display.php%3Fpage%3Dmithras_and_christianity&ved=2ahUKEwjA1KzCx93hAhWfHDQIHXVBBkAQFjAAegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw22AEhFiAGc_dtf2rOp3n8W&cshid=1555725118441 Christianity is basically a mishmash of mithraic and other stories grafted onto judaic principles. I honestly don't understand how anyone can even make a cursory examination of the early church and the formation of the Bible and believe any of it.

There is absolutely no firsthand evidence of jesus' existence. Any writings that mention Jesus come from at least a century after his supposed death, And all are quite biased. Some historians argue that the biblical Jesus is more a composite of several preacher/teacher types who may have lives in Palestine of the time.

I wonder if AOC is really a rogue agent that annoys pelosi, or if she is more like a dog that Pelosi let's off the leash when it suits her.

When I lived in St. Pete, the causeway across the bay was to narrow for a cop to sit. So everyone would just haul ass across it. Then they started using airplanes to radio ahead to cops waiting at the other end.

They have roughly equal validity to my mind. But if you're asking more from a literary sense than a historical one, fair enough.

Since the whole story is made up and Jesus likely didn't exist, I'll go with no.