Was christianity a hoax?

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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    gue_barium wrote:
    I guess we should have said Mohammad.

    yes perhaps you should of.
    allah and mohammed are two distinctly different entities. it was to mohammed that allah revealed himself and his words. but it was a scribe that wrote them down as mohammed was apparently illiterate.
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    gue_barium wrote:
    Jesus is more popular. I looked it up.


    (Sizes shown are approximate estimates, and are here mainly for the purpose of ordering the groups, not providing a definitive number. This list is sociological/statistical in perspective.)

    Christianity: 2.1 billion

    Islam: 1.3 billion

    Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion

    Hinduism: 900 million

    Chinese traditional religion: 394 million

    Buddhism: 376 million

    primal-indigenous: 300 million

    African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million

    Sikhism: 23 million

    Juche: 19 million

    Spiritism: 15 million

    Judaism: 14 million

    Baha'i: 7 million

    Jainism: 4.2 million

    Shinto: 4 million

    Cao Dai: 4 million

    Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million

    Tenrikyo: 2 million

    Neo-Paganism: 1 million

    Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand

    Rastafarianism: 600 thousand

    Scientology: 500 thousand

    Can we have the source of these stats please? :)
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  • NMyTree
    NMyTree Posts: 2,374
    catefrances wrote:
    yes perhaps you should of.
    allah and mohammed are two distinctly different entities. it was to mohammed that allah revealed himself and his words. but it was a scribe that wrote them down as mohammed was apparently illiterate.

    You forgot to include the word "allegedly" or the phrase " as the fairytale goes......"

    We're not talking facts here. We're talking fiction.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    NMyTree wrote:
    You forgot to include the word "allegedly" or the phrase " as the fairytale goes......"

    We're not talking facts here. We're talking fiction.

    and if i were under threat of litigation perhaps i would have used the word allegedly. but i'm not, so i won't. plus it is time consuming as i would have to apply it when speaking of christianity and all the other religions. i'm just saying how the story goes. whether it is fact or fiction is up to the reader.
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    catefrances wrote:
    .....i'm just saying how the story goes. whether it is fact or fiction is up to the reader.

    EXACTLY!!
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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    miller8966 wrote:
    i believe in energry..but also a firm belief in the scriptures.


    The ones you choose to believe in and follow. The rest you ignore. And let's not even not to get into how many scriptures flat out contradict each other.

    Christianity sure is convenient.
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    ........Christianity sure is convenient.

    So are most things driven and ruled by boys!;)
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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Jeanie wrote:
    So are most things driven and ruled by boys!;)

    Oh, they thrive on it! :D
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    Oh, they thrive on it! :D

    Yup! I'm sure it's a evil plot to keep all us girls "under the thumb"! :D
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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Jeanie wrote:
    Yup! I'm sure it's a evil plot to keep all us girls "under the thumb"! :D

    They call it organized religion. :p
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    They call it organized religion. :p

    or civilised society. ;)

    or even better, fundamentalist brainwashing for the patriarchy.
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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    catefrances wrote:
    or civilised society. ;)

    or even better, fundamentalist brainwashing for the patriarchy.

    Yeah, more often than not, I really have to question their defintion of 'civilized'. ;)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    catefrances wrote:
    or civilised society. ;)

    or even better, fundamentalist brainwashing for the patriarchy.

    Yup, but they are losing their grip! That's why they've come back so bloody hard with the "beauty myth" and "women can have it all" shit! Keep us busy waxing, dieting, cooking, working, mothering and crap so they can tighten their grip while we aren't watching...........................
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jeanie wrote:
    Yup, but they are losing their grip! That's why they've come back so bloody hard with the "beauty myth" and "women can have it all" shit! Keep us busy waxing, dieting, cooking, working, mothering and crap so they can tighten their grip while we aren't watching...........................

    waxing, dieting. what's that???
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  • NMyTree
    NMyTree Posts: 2,374
    catefrances wrote:
    i'm just saying how the story goes. whether it is fact or fiction is up to the reader.

    No, it's a fact if it really happened and there was some kind of proof god came down and instructed some human beings to write this stuff. But there is no proof.

    What's up to the reader is a matter of faith, not fact. Facts have no place in faith anf faith has no business in claiming facts.
  • NMyTree
    NMyTree Posts: 2,374
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    The ones you choose to believe in and follow. The rest you ignore. And let's not even not to get into how many scriptures flat out contradict each other.

    Christianity sure is convenient.

    That's case with all religions. Christianity, IMO , is a joke. Here's a religion where it's followers evoke the name of Jesus on a regular basis, but their actions, words and way of life completely defy the alleged words of Jesus.

    They completely fly in the face of everything Jesus allegedly stood for and preached for.

    Convenient if a generous and kind way to describe it.
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    catefrances wrote:
    waxing, dieting. what's that???

    Yeah, I know, but it seems to be part of the brainwashing of the masses now too. Just so they can get at anybody that can't be pulled into line with religion.
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  • Abookamongstthemany
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    NMyTree wrote:
    That's case with all religions. Christianity, IMO , is a joke. Here's a religion where it's followers evoke the name of Jesus on a regular basis, but their actions, words and way of life completely defy the alleged words of Jesus.

    They completely fly in the face of everything Jesus allegedly stood for and preached for.

    Convenient if a generous and kind way to describe it.

    I agree that it's all religions, as well. I single out Christianity more often because the amount of hypocrisy surrounding it is unrivaled. Just like that thread a while back about supporting the war even though it goes completely against the commandment 'Thou shall not kill.'
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    NMyTree wrote:
    No, it's a fact if it really happened and there was some kind of proof god came down and instructed some human beings to write this stuff. But there is no proof.

    What's up to the reader is a matter of faith, not fact. Facts have no place in faith anf faith has no business in claiming facts.

    isn't the proof the earth and we as the human race. didn't God allegedly create both?

    ps. i'm playing devil's advocate here. please don't jump on my head. :)
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  • NMyTree
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    catefrances wrote:
    isn't the proof the earth and we as the human race. didn't God allegedly create both?

    ps. i'm playing devil's advocate here. please don't jump on my head. :)


    Playing Devil's Advocate is not proof or fact, byt it's very definition:)

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