Socrates taught for 40 years, Plato for 50, Aristotle for 40, and Jesus Christ for 3 years!
Again -
Whose influence pervades now?
Jesus was not an artist, poet or musician, yet He had inspired great paintings, literature, and music. Call as witnesses Raphael, Micehlangelo, da Vinci, Dante, Miltron, Donne, Haydn, Handel, Beethoven, Bach and Mendelssohn.
No media coverage about Jesus, but all those books! Worldwide acclaim! Unrivalled teaching! Healings and raising the dead! Billions of followers! Feeding of thousands from scraps! Amazing miracles! Unprecedented humility! Sinless, spotless and righteous life! Love for sinners! Substantiated claims to be God!
2006-09-12 14:27:52 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You forgot something very important
The ONLY leader of ANY religion to have risen from the dead.
Christianity has this exclusive claim
2006-09-12 14:34:11 · answer #1 · answered by kenny p 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
So your premise is that Raphael, Michelangelo, DA Vinci, Dante, Milton, Haydn, Handel, Beethoven, Bach and Mendelssohn.
Would have been beggars on some street corner if not for Jesus. I think not. they were men of genius who were products of their time and culture.
As far as media coverage, you've got to be kidding. There has been more press for good old JC than just about any other subject in history. He's a money maker, drive around town on Sunday, see all the people going to church, what do you think they are talking about for hours on end?
Unrivaled teachings? Most, if not all of his teachings are not original to him, they are borrowed from other religions and cultures throughout the orient.
Amazing miracles? According to a 2000 year old text, written by superstitious, ignorant people. Old news, myth, bad history.
2006-09-12 14:50:49 · answer #2 · answered by Paul S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not bad, for a myth. Modern biblical scholarship makes a very compelling case for the idea that Jesus never existed... that he was, in fact, entirely fictional. By the way... if you add up all the parts of Jesus' life that are accounted for in the bible... not counting the supposed 40 days he spent in the wilderness... it works out to 3 weeks.
The Jesus Puzzle
http://pages.ca.inter.net/%7Eoblio/jhcjp.htm
http://jesuspuzzle.humanists.net/home.htm
Christianity is essentially a criminal business enterprise... in fact, it is the world's longest running and most successful Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) scam. The product they are selling is the illusion of 'salvation'... and the 'pay plan' doesn't kick in until after you're dead. Meanwhile the VICTIMS (having been deceived into believing that it is their God-given duty) are out there busily recruiting MORE victims. What a racket! FORTUNATELY, it only works on those who are gullible enough, and sufficiently lacking in critical thinking skills, to fall for it, and buy in to the prepackaged delusion. UNfortunately, THAT accounts for about 75% of the population of the USA. (There are a lot more people who DON'T know how to think properly than there are people who DO know how to think properly.) That is why there are a lot more religious people in the USA than there are 'Free-thinkers'... including Atheists. Also, Christians are generally too dense to realize that proselytizing (spreading the 'good news') is a key element of the Christian MLM MARKETING PLAN, which was instituted after Christianity lost the political power that had previously allowed them to simply torture and kill anybody who did not comply. Now, they obliviously try to just pester and annoy people to death, through persistent obnoxiousness. If you stop to think about it, you will realize that Christians are very much like the Borg, on Star Trek Next Generation: "You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile." I would not be surprised to learn that thoughts of Christianity provided the 'creative spark' for the Borg concept.
Interestingly, statistics on supernatural beliefs count the USA on a par with backward, developing Third World nations, rather than among modern, advanced industrial powers.
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"Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered." ~ Victor J. Stenger
"Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure."Â ~ Harvard Lampoon, "Doon" (paraphrase)
http://www.religioustolerance.org/reconstr.htm
http://home.ca.inter.net/oblio/home.htm
2006-09-12 14:31:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Christ the King is truth as the others are semi-true. As Plato was Idealistic, Aristotle was an Empiricist, they all had conflicting views. Christ appeals to all people. Therefore, without him, what kind of ash tray would the Earth be?
2006-09-12 14:37:46 · answer #4 · answered by elguapo_marco_2008@sbcglobal.net 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus Rocks!
2006-09-12 14:32:36 · answer #5 · answered by notw777 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are incorrect.
The teachings of Roman Emperor Constantine are followed. And they have nothing to do with anything Jesus ever said or did since Jesus did not exist in the first place.
2006-09-12 14:31:25 · answer #6 · answered by Left the building 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus Christ beats them all...
2006-09-12 14:32:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Satan the devil
2006-09-12 14:31:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋