How do religions start?

[mistermack]

Can you be specific with you belief on this subject. What major Religion do you profess to have begun as a lie? And from this specific example what was the motivation. I have read enough of your general statements to understand the point your trying to make; but I would like to see you develop a specific example, of say Christianity or Judaism and precisely what motivation there was.

I don't know much about the origin of Judaism. But I would certainly nominate christianity. Unless you believe he came back from the dead, it's pretty obviously a pack of lies.
How can you point to someone else's motivation, except to point to other people lying on a huge scale, through wishful thinking mostly, like the example I gave in Ireland. In that example, one person swore she could see the statue move, and twelve others with her were so infected as to also swear they could see movement that wasn't there. Within a week, there were thousands of reports of statues that moved, all over the country. Many religious people, even today, are primed and ready to lie.
How different is that from the story of Jesus's 'appearances' after resurrection?
If we didn't have modern reporting etc, the story of the moving statue would have moved on a long way by now. ( back then it had nearly half a country believing it, after a week, but that's the power of television ).
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[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

Is FSMism a religion yet? That started out as satire.

[Robert_S]

Is FSMism a religion yet? That started out as satire.

It did not!

Heretic!!!!

[colubridae]

Is FSMism a religion yet? That started out as satire.

It did not!

Heretic!!!!

There-a-tic.

Tablets please

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

[Pappa]

Is FSMism a religion yet? That started out as satire.

I've been touched by his noodly appendage!

Actually, the prophet Bobby Henderson (spaghetti sauce be upon him) is a Facebook friend of mine.

[Trolldor]

Can you be specific with you belief on this subject. What major Religion do you profess to have begun as a lie? And from this specific example what was the motivation. I have read enough of your general statements to understand the point your trying to make; but I would like to see you develop a specific example, of say Christianity or Judaism and precisely what motivation there was.

I don't know much about the origin of Judaism. But I would certainly nominate christianity. Unless you believe he came back from the dead, it's pretty obviously a pack of lies.
How can you point to someone else's motivation, except to point to other people lying on a huge scale, through wishful thinking mostly, like the example I gave in Ireland. In that example, one person swore she could see the statue move, and twelve others with her were so infected as to also swear they could see movement that wasn't there. Within a week, there were thousands of reports of statues that moved, all over the country. Many religious people, even today, are primed and ready to lie.
How different is that from the story of Jesus's 'appearances' after resurrection?
If we didn't have modern reporting etc, the story of the moving statue would have moved on a long way by now. ( back then it had nearly half a country believing it, after a week, but that's the power of television ).
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The real statement should be:
"Show me a religion that was every true, before I show you all the others that were false."

[A Monkey Shaved]

Same way political parties start, they split off from some pre-existing political party or religion like Jesus fragmented as a pre-existing Jewish sect lead by John the Baptist perhaps. Unlike many other Jewish sects which faded into oblivion you did not have to be Jewish to qualify as a disciple and so the religion spread like influenza.