Yellum Notnef

For NoRobots......
That's one of the few Jesus-ish books I have left besides "Egypt, Greece and Rome" and "Ancient Mystery Cults" by Burkert. The rest were sold at a yard sale years ago. I also have "Darwins Black Box" and "Evolution: A Theory In Crisis". Nobody wanted to buy those as well as my stack of Zecharia Sitchin books I collected during my crazy period. I even have a very rare copy of Loyd Pie's "Everything you know is wrong" if that tickles your fancy. I can't even give that one away.
And if that doesn't satiate the hunger for crazy shit I also have "The Giza Power Plant"

So there ya go. I too have wanted to believe there was something else going on planet Earth besides what common sense and scientific inquiry tell us.
But I have to ask whats crazier, believing for a couple weeks that the great pyramid was an electrical generator or living ones whole life believing that Jesus floated up to heaven to judge the quick and the dead?

No Robots

I, too, have had a wild ride on the Jesus train. My favorites from those days are Jesus the magician and The Sacred mushroom and the cross. Ultimately, I did find a book that completely changed my life: Constantin Brunner's Our Christ. It is Brunner who has given me certainty that, yes, there is something else going on planet Earth besides what common sense and scientific inquiry tell us. If you are interested, one of my Brunnerian friends has just published a book (in French) that I have reviewed (in English) here.

ApostateAbe

My apologies

Yellum Notnef

I never actually boarded the Jesus train. During my period of doubting reality I decided alien intervention was more plausible then a Jewish guy who turned into God. And no offense, but after seeing all the Brunner quotes you've posted here I don't think there's anything to gain from reading it unless your pre-existing faith needs a recharge.

No Robots

Sorry, I should have historical Jesus train. I was born and raised a mythicist, actually. I could never really take that inane pendantic b.s. seriously, though.

bacht

Mythicists are pedantic? They're frickin invisible, they don't even register on the collective radar screen. The "common sense" opinion is on the side of the HJ crowd: some Jewish guy who lived in the 1st C started a new religion, even though he was misunderstood and judicially murdered. I challenge you to find anyone on the street who disagrees (or the movie theater: how many millions sat thru Gibson's Passion or Brown's Da Vinci Code?)

No Robots

Sure. Don't you read your own posts?

Oh, and my father! Oy! Golden Bough, scapegoat, Church suppression, yadda, yadda, yadda.

motorhead

Oh, he was a historical person and if you don't believe in him, you're going to Hell! But, remember, he loves and cares for you more than you know.

bacht

okay...

Pedantic
–adjective
1. ostentatious in one's learning.
2. overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, esp. in teaching.

Synonyms:
2. didactic, doctrinaire.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pedantic

It's true I had preachers on both sides of the family...but this is the internet after all, home of all who love the sound of their own voice :grin:

No Robots

If, instead of saying "inane pedantic b.s.", I had said "shinola", my meaning would still be clear and we wouldn't need to have this discussion.