sotto voce

Ah, so zombies exist.

Wow.

Sheshbazzar

A few individuals that survived poisoning, but no 2 thousand year old ones still living, and invisibly floating around whispering in peoples ears.

Does zombie Jebus talk to you sotto?

sotto voce

Then they didn't die.

We can mess around with silly pejoratives like 'zombie'; like children.

Or not.

Toto

You come now. He is comparing the two, with a particularly inflammatory comparison. Secular people understand what blasphemy might feel like to a religious person, but also understand that they need to get over those feelings.

Blasphemy is a human right.

Vorkosigan

Come now, he's completely full of shit. "Secularists" don't ridicule religion as "secularists" though we may do so as individuals. Secularists beliefs are not "privileged" in the public square; quite the opposite.

This construction of religion-as-victim is bog-standard right-wing religious nuttiness. This guy comes across as a not particularly intelligent right-wing religious crank. NYT has always been a neoliberal establishment rag. Now it will probably swing further to the Right.

Thought Criminal

The whole point of secularism is that the public square doesn't privilege any religion (or lack thereof). So, yes, this guy is a tool.

Sheshbazzar

Nope. not like zombie Jebus.
I think we will, at least for as long as it takes to get childish people to give up believing in a talking snake, and that a 2000 year old living dead zombie is whispering in their ear.

Does zombie Jebus talk to you sotto?

Yes or no?

This shouldn't be too hard a question for such a learned, honest, and devout person as yourself.

mountainman

The pseudonymous author of the Acts of Andrew and Matthew, Leucius Charinus, writes that Captain Jesus drives a Water Taxi to the Land of the Cannibals!" - the apostles Cast lots for world dominion (just like the Roman soldiers in the story of the crucifixion).

The idea of Zombies is not new within the context of so-called Christian literature. The Acts of Pilate was written by two zombies who arose from their graves in downtown Jerusalem after the resurrection event. Their names strangely enough were Lucius and Charinus.

The instance of Zombies in so-called early christian literature indicates the presence of silly pejoratives by the gnostic author. This is confirmed by the straight-laced Photius centuries afterwards writing about Leucius Charinus....

The investigation reveals that the Gnostics were being childish and silly when dealing with the official canonical Jewish Zombie story.

On the other foot the imperially sponsored canonical bandwaggon regarded this as BLASPHEMY against the most holy name of the emperor in first place, and Bilbo Jesus Baggins in second place. Eusebius places these books on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, and soldiers searched these books out high and low until they were almost all destroyed by the totalitarian 4th and 5th century christian regime.
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sotto voce

:wave:

sotto voce

'Christianity is based on objective truth'

Not so. But, as is easy to see from the absurd, hormonal fabrication that people write about it, people certainly believe it to be objective truth.