yes...Pilate had a tough choice...washing his hands did not relive him of the death to me however.
when 10 people kill a person, each is not responsible 1/10th, but for the whole murder, deny it as they may
text like that is especially suspicous, knowing that the roman empire became the roman church, because all their soldiers had turned christian, the emperor pretended to have a dream where their soldiers won and under a cross, so he had them make a flag with a cross on it.
besides its full known (by scholars anyway) that the bible was much altered when put together by the roman empire. (formerly the enemy of all christians lol)
knowing somewhat about the roman emperors does explain abit about the numbers of pedophiles within their ranks. and knowing somewhat about them and later churchleaders makes one think that the whole bible is totally cast in doubt as anything but fiction, one would need to learn the ancient languages and get your hands on the oldest texts to see whats what (and they usually have lots of text missing and or using language that makes little sense today)
the bible has some philosophical truths, but is mostly a dry collection of boring stories and jewish linealogy, the jews on the other hand possibly invented bullshit artists and knowing somewhat about their priests, casts the whole old testament in doubt as political propaganda, inspired by true events and a thinker or 2 and then spundoctored into this fancy tale.
the new testament, is possibly and probably based on a real life person, but since the first records were written 80 years later and tampered with by the roman empire and possibly its original writers, everything is cast into doubt except the message of compassion and love.
and even that could have been stolen from buddhist teachings. predating jesus by 500 years.
all the surviving records about this time (and the mention of jesus) were roman, bunch of unscrupulous bastards. can not really trust them, the history is written by the victors, as they see fit.
as many scholars see it, the roman empire sculpted a faith, combing elements from many faiths (for example christmas, formerly the festival of the light, a very "pagan" festival, easter as well, the festival of fertility (why do you think they got the bunnies on easter, bit of a coincidence "christ" being born and killed onthose festivals? and says alot about the roman empire and their politicans)
its an adaptive religion, much of what is part of modern christianity is fairly new, though ideas like heaven and hell were invented around 600 ad.
though i doubt the line "heaven is all around you(meaning heaven is on earth, if you make it so)" was invented by the romans,they just took alot of good stuff (or it wouldnt have captured peoples imagination so) that people allready believed in or much, put it all together edited what didnt fit them and made a nice stew out of it.
not essentially a bad thing, it unified the world a bit, but few years down the line they got really drunk on power and started selling absolution and torturing people.
making statements like the pope is basically god on earth (still in effect actually)
or was it nr 2, forget lol.
aside from some philosophical tidbits its a rather boring nonsense and i fail to see how this could have generated so much hoopla, but i suppose people are just really afraid and insecure about their lot in life and really jumping at the chance of someone bossing them around and telling them what to do, the higher the authority the better.
like having giant parents (single father this case lol) all the time, with strict rules and guidelines and you have to please them to get the cookies (heaven)
if you are bad you get the belt (hell)
of course this one has the power to make it forever (scaring a shitload of people with the idea)
semisick insane idea, (speaking mildly) but it sure has garnered a lot of loot and power to alot of people.
though i suppose it also makes a lot of people feel good too. so not all bad (if you dont take into consideration that even happy religious people tend to make atheists miserable)
blablabla, i get bored even writing about this claptrap.
