Originally posted by Patient_Leech
To read up a little more on some of Richard Carrier's take...Dying-and-Rising Gods: It’s Pagan, Guys. Get Over It.
And a nice little history documentary, not nearly as in-depth as Richard Carrier's work, but still good. Keep it PC, guys. Keep it Pagan Christ...
Which one of these "PAGAN GODS" died for the sins of their worshippers and was then ressurected?
Originally posted by Blakemore
Imagine being a Christian.Imagine having to wear glasses all or most of your life.
Imagine being just visually able to read the tiny texts that said Jesus cured blind people.
Imagine then being told he will return again, but we don't know when.
One time Jesus will come back and I will see the light. Any minute now.
Then imagine talking to someone who had laser eye surgery and can see perfectly fine, or someone who has never suffered from any kind of visual impairment.
You could say something like "The Lord-ah cures the blind-ah!"
Yeah, it's difficult to understand if you were not indoctrinated into it. When you're indoctrinated into it you're devoid of irony. It completely escapes you until you (hopefully) find your way out of it, but many don't.
Originally posted by LordofBrooklyn
Which one of these "PAGAN GODS" died for the sins of their worshippers and was then ressurected?
At least Zalmoxis and Dionysus. Not sure of the exhaustive list. You'd have to do a bit more digging. But even those that weren't personal savior gods were seen as a "metaphor for communal agricultural salvation," such as Baal... "He was transformed into one of the many personal savior gods of the region we hear of at the dawn of Christianity (Jupiter Dolichenus), but are allowed to know nothing about, owing to the Medieval Christian destruction of pagan evidence. For example, Hippolytus devoted two entire chapters of his Refutation of All Heresies to the mystery cults and their savior deities. Curiously, those are the only two books wholly destroyed. Go figure. What were the Medievals trying to hide? What did they not want us to read? I’ll let your imagination ponder."
^That's quoted from the Baal section at the Richard Carrier "Dying and Rising Gods" link I provided.
Another nice little documentary, but about Emperor Constantine this time...
I can't stand Anita Sarkeesian. She was an average student who rightfully got attacked because she didn't know anything about video games and instead focused on basic gender stereotypes.
If you watch her early videos in '08 where she addresses True Blood, you see just does the same thing.
She's only popular because gamers are ****ing ruthless when it comes to making fun of stupidity for e-points and she's mildly attractive, whereas gamers tend to look like Backfire's asscrack.
Really, nothing she says is valid, but when idiots get patreon donations for making fun of her, they really had to reach for new material to keep the revenue, which kind of destroyed their credibility and anyone else's. Even UKIP are gone.
Jesus diz
Another interesting documentary...
This was a really good conversation with Richard Carrier and some other good guests, like Holy Kookaid from YT, a big former Christian. The first third of this is particularly good, and it picks up again about halfway through...
Originally posted by Patient_Leech
Another interesting documentary...
Been speculated that the Jesus myth was built in part around the Osiris myth. Being killed, rising from the dead and promising eternal afterlife to believers.
Originally posted by Blakemore
"men get their own way"It's a movement of incel gamer men who think they should be in charge of society because of their gamer score, but social justice warriors like Anita Sarkeesian are ruining it for them just because she doesn't know how to play Mario Bros.
Originally posted by RobtardOh, that thing Surt was a member of?
"Men Going Their Own Way"The rest is correct, angry incels angry at women because they're incels.
It's a good, concise summary, but I just wish it wasn't read like one big run-on sentence...