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Jesus is the Son of God. That's al there is to it.
Of the three branches of the Mosiac/Abrahamic religions, the only cerifiably real and historic core figure is Mohammed, who was a real and documented person. I suspect that rather than ride up to the heavens on a flying horse, he is more likely to have riden off into the sunset on a camel. No fatwah, please.
There is no historical evidence for either Moses or Jesus, both being fictional, composite and or folk story characters who were written about long after they supposedly lived and made their mark rather than actual and factual persons.
The only historical corroboration of the Jesus story and person was Josephus and that passage is acknowledged now to be a much later forgery that was inserted in the history as to back up the phony Jesus religion at the time. Having read the Nag Hammadi texts it is clear that even if the Jesus religion was based on a factual person, the Romanized version of the religion was totally different from the original Jesus religion from the first three or four centuries. The official Romanized Jesus Religion took great pains and efforts to eliminate the "Originals" and establish brand identity and control over the religion.
As for Moses, a reasoned speculation is that Canaanites who had moved to Egypt because of a better and richer economy and culture probably got educated and Egyptianized to degree that they figured they could go back home and set up their own little egypt having the advantage of Egyptian civilization (an that monotheistic stuff)over the less sophisticated Canaanites who stayed in the current "problem" area.
/history may have repeated itself or may have been acted on with that idea in this century
Now as for the TEN COMMANDMENTS, any adult who watches that movie without having been brought up believing that it is real and holy should view it as a laughable and childish fairy tale.
There is no Moses, only the character played by Charleton Heston, and that is a good and great a Moses as there ever shall be. No adult should be impressed and most kids today would also have a hard time swallowing it.
What do you think would happen to anyone who walked up to the Pharoah and threatened him? He wouldn't be leading anyone out of Egypt.
Faith means you have to believe something incredible. Once you believe any of this nonsense they can get you to believe anything. Like weapons of mass destruction, Usama bin Laden or either political party.
So, if you believe any of this hogwash, youare a perfect sucker for the MSM, the Democrats, the Republicans, the local Fortune Teller or a telemarketer.
So, what does Jesus and Pilate have to do with the election?
There are a whole lot of suckers who will believe anything and swallow the amazing.
Pilate was real. So was Herod. Which one are you voting for?
Let's see him heal McCain's war injuries raise Biden from the dead.
I'll vote for him if he can do that.
/in illinois, the dead have been known to be raised on election day quite often so that activity doesn't count.
Shocked but not dismayed.
I had hesitated to read it as per previous articles, but it is a refreshing change.
Kudos.
There goes the evangelical vote!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLJOOYEmocQ
AREA WOMAN to Palin: "spare us the phony sentiment"
/lay on the phony testimonials.
/works every time, don't it?
/maybe THE ONION is hiring?
Each morsel as it is squeezed out from the gaping maw of the MSM must be savored, analyzed, sniffed and tasted for the edification of the lumpen proletariat for only the best and most prized should be issued forth for their delight, inhalations and the rubbing on the face which marks the truest and most faithful who deserve only the best.
Ah Alex, you are a master of the art!
You gonna hose yourself off now?
"I can't believe that someone as intelligent with you has concluded the election is anything but a fraud."
Neither are white people.
Violate your programming
it is violating you.
Thanks for adhering faithfully to the script.
Beautiful. Thank you very much.
That is what I do.
Brilliant and genius.
That was pretty easy.
humorous.
it's use here - nothing matters more than race to racists no matter what their color.
The color of McKinney's skin is ant-war and anti-corporatism and pro-human.
Something so shocking it offends so go ahead and talk race instead of character, because character matters not to a racist, only race does.
I know a little bit about playing people and setting themselves up to reveal themselves too.
Sometimes i even play myself.
Go ahead and vote for war. Enlist in the military. Have your kids enlist in the military. Have your parents enlist in the military.
Support Charles Darwin.
Put your life where your vote is.
I'd rather vote for a "loser" than a warmonger.
phony journalism.
phony concern.
I am for Cynthia McKinney, not McCain and Palin.
I think Obama and Biden are fine republican challengers.
I don't see any democrats running for president.
If you think Biden and Obama are democrats, you are not looking closely enough.
How can you support Fascists? You know what they want to do with people like you.
You really don't want to work for the TSA, do you?
They know about it and will do nothing to change it.
What have the Democrats or Republicans done for the people in the past 20 years?
Healthcare?
Infrastructure?
Jobs?
Industry?
Education?
The foxes are guarding the henhouse and the US people are the chickens.
The foxes play, GOOD fox and BAD fox. They both eat chicken.
Why thank you for your compliment!