Weebs said: 1st) You can't compare Jesus to Hitler just because of what his followers did. Let me ask you, if they REALLY were his followers (Christians) why would they kill innocents then ? Besides, I can say the same for Stalin and how he killed more than Hitler and therefor, since Stalin is Atheist then it must be all Atheisms fault. No..
The responsibility lies with the person themselves, not someone or something else.
That's like assuming someone who played GTA is gonna be a murderer.
2nd) I had a feeling this thread was gonna explode, lol. But all ya guys gotta respect eachothers opinions, sure you may not give a damn for Christ but he means a lot to some people. And to others, don't get too offended.
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Well as far as hitler and stalin are concerned it really has nothing to do with that. I didn't even make that comparision. If you ask me most violence that stems out of christianity comes from the way Constatine established a "universal church" and previously the roman empire's handling of a new, yet very segmented, religion. Most hypocrisy of christianity comesout of an unwarranted percieved strictness that really isn't there.
I just feel there is no reason to eb offended by this video or any others or anything else that anybody does regarding (your religion) because in the end it is a personal venture.
BTW there is not much proof outside of the New testament for the existence of Jesus. He is breifly mentioned in the Antiquities of the Jews some 100 years later and supposedly mentioned without any distinction(i.e. he had no name and no descriptionother than a guy icausing trouble in all of 2 sentences). He may have been mentioned in the Babylon talmuds but than again the only guy in the talmuds who had apostles only had 5 and was hung for burning meat in public. It is something that we take on faith. He came from a time when there are many prophets, some people believe that hte Jesus you read about todayis a conglamorate of all those people.
So don't get mad when people call Jesus fictional it is just part of life. Most of the New testament was pieced together by a council of men who added and subtracted books ot fit the story they wanted to tell a few hundred years later.