Considering the only thing that makes the God on a stick relevant was the conviction that he was the Living God, the physical manifestation of "the word" and that the orthodox church was a corrupt den of fools and sycophants, I think if he were around today he'd be some babbling fucking nutcase on youtube that many of those involved with rationalism would delight in tearing to shreds. Eventually he'd probably bomb an abortion clinic, or murder some priests at which point we'd all be asking why he wasn't charged with terrorism, that or he'd have a compound, lots of wives and guns and they'd eventually either commit suicide by ATF or poison or the like.
I think the God on a stick was probably suffering from the same kind of mental instability as all the latter claimants have been.
Edited to add.
I think that he probably wasn't even the first, just his cult was gifted by having people around it that could write, not that common then, nor even now.
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He was an end-times cult-leader. Simple as.Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.
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Explains why he was Camping it up.Animavore wrote:
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The Jesus dude might have been a scam, but those disciples, they were dim. None qualified as atheist. Except Richard.
See parroty thread.
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I do wonder if he's actually a cultural christian rather than a cultural atheist ever since he said he was a cultural christian? 
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I guess he prays to Cultural Yaweh then?
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Are you saying he didn't?Crumple wrote:Jesus was a fucking retard if he existed at all. Should have worked it out in Gethsamene and got Paul or Peter to do the cross stunt and married Mary Magdelene....
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He got her up the stick as well as himself?Robert_S wrote:Are you saying he didn't?Crumple wrote:Jesus was a fucking retard if he existed at all. Should have worked it out in Gethsamene and got Paul or Peter to do the cross stunt and married Mary Magdelene....
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Nah, he was simply a Jew who mistakenly thought he had the numbers to do a coup on the current religious leadership...
Wrong move, buddy, didn't do the numbers properly...
Wrong move, buddy, didn't do the numbers properly...
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He died for the cause and was playing the long game.JimC wrote:Nah, he was simply a Jew who mistakenly thought he had the numbers to do a coup on the current religious leadership...
Wrong move, buddy, didn't do the numbers properly...
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Nah, just a stuffed up move in the game of Romano-Judaic Realpolitik, a move which his followers saw a great opportunity for spin...Crumple wrote:He died for the cause and was playing the long game.JimC wrote:Nah, he was simply a Jew who mistakenly thought he had the numbers to do a coup on the current religious leadership...
Wrong move, buddy, didn't do the numbers properly...
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We'll never nail down all the facts but there is enough absent evidence and gaps in the story to suggest it's all cobblers.JimC wrote:Nah, just a stuffed up move in the game of Romano-Judaic Realpolitik, a move which his followers saw a great opportunity for spin...Crumple wrote:He died for the cause and was playing the long game.JimC wrote:Nah, he was simply a Jew who mistakenly thought he had the numbers to do a coup on the current religious leadership...
Wrong move, buddy, didn't do the numbers properly...
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closet deist? for a guy who's touted as the son of Dog, that's an accusation that doesn't make sense.Schneibster wrote:I'll buy "Jesus was a socialist." I'll even buy "Christianity was a revolution." But I'm pretty sure Jesus wasn't an atheist. He might have been a closet deist.
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Nothing I've read in the gospels makes me believe he was a Camping level moron, what's worse, most of the apocalyptic stuff is in John, which may be the most dubious of the four...Zombie Gawdzilla wrote:Explains why he was Camping it up.Animavore wrote:
From what I get, he was an end of times guy mostly because so many of his followers were convinced he was one.
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I think there is a lot of truth in this...Svartalf wrote:
From what I get, he was an end of times guy mostly because so many of his followers were convinced he was one.
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