@izzythepush,
Quote:I would imagine that a newly established religion that had been persecuted pretty much since the outset, had enough to worry about without antagonising those in power more than necessary.
I can see logic in trying to imagine that Izzy but if I were to guess, you are probably more interested in what a well informed atheist would have to say about that.
Just kidding with you Izzy.
I hope that you will at least consider the facts and opinions that I share with you and if you do not mind, could you let me know what the facts are that I share with you? "because I am uncertain of them myself.
A newly establish religion? I think this was a fact but what is the true origin of this religion because I do don't know?
All that I can do is make guesses or assumptions and you know how much I love doing that.
Let me take you back to a time 500 years BC. We have Plato writing about his teacher he calls Socrates. In Plato's work we can find Socrates's apology.
From my understanding we get Plato's account of a highly advanced individual and if you read Socrates's apology you might agree with me or maybe not.
Now Socrates was being put to death for corrupting the minds of the youth but to this day I am uncertain what this corruption was, "maybe someone can feel me in."
Could this corruption be teaching the youth that there should be nothing to taboo to question?
If we were to go back and look at the old testament we will see that it was forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil " right and wrong "MORALITY" We should only believe what is told to us and that is it.
I do understand that I may be far from reality but I am using this as an illustration regardless.
We can see here that Socrates has pissed someone off can't we?
Can you imagine that a person as intellectual as Socrates not being able to write?
Could it have been that his writings were seen as so destructive to the youth that they were all destroyed? Maybe maybe not. We can be sure of one thing though and this is that we have someone asking too many questions and from here forward many more people may have started doing the same thing.
A few hundred years passes and what do we have but a bunch of people including Jewish sects from the surrounding area with different ideas about the nature of reality.
We may now have the birth of Christianity but with a different name "Therapeutae" according to history or should I say my my opinion.
OK we now have people who are thinking but still believe in God and these people are "out of their cotton picking minds because not only are they denouncing property and slavery but they are also scattered across the lands surrounding the Mediterranean sea.
This is a very bad thing for the ruling sociopaths that see nothing wrong with slavery so the only thing that the rulers knew to do was kill them all of but they were so wide spread that it was a non accomplish-able task because their ideas were well accepted by many as being morally correct.
The only solution that the ruling class could come up with was to use their morality but twist it and teach it as if it were the word of God and it has been "somewhat working from then on. The end.
