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- From: quest@iowegia.uucp (Steve J. Quest)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
- Subject: Re: Atheism and Intelligence
- Message-ID: <a6J2VB4w165w@iowegia.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 12:06:21 CST
- References: <1992Dec13.061001.18766@linus.mitre.org>
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- crawford@boole.mitre.org (Randy Crawford) writes:
-
- > What are the opinions on the existence of Jesus Christ? As I see it we
- > may hold one of 4 positions:
- >
- > 1) You are certain He did not exist. (atheism)
- > 2) You think He did not exist. (agnosticism)
- > 3) You think He did exist. (agnosticism)
- > 4) You are certain He did exist. (theism)
-
- Randy,
-
- I am an atheist and I believe Jesus did exist. I also
- believe that he was a political figure- not a child of a god.
- Here we have a man who was followed by people and worshiped by
- many. They believed in his teachings. I am followed by many,
- mostly younger people (high school age) who believe in me and
- follow my teachings (in science). I call them Quest Wanna-be's.
-
- This is the factor that allows me to understand the man,
- known historically as Jesus Christ. In many ways, my life has
- paralleled, but I am not a child of god. I combat society
- intellectually (as did Jesus) toward the goal of moral and social
- prosperity. I use science, he used religion- the goals were the
- same.
-
- Jesus was just a man, he died and finally I feel he
- believed himself to be just a man. Power can go to ones head and
- when followers tell you that you are `super human' you tend to
- believe it yourself (my problem as well).
-
- The stories about super human powers are all fanciful
- tales which creative, not intellectual people told. My wanna-be
- followers are not intellectual, but creative, therefore they say
- things about me which are often blown to super-human proportions.
- I can therefore understand how it happened with Jesus.
-
- Check out the library- how many factual verses fictional
- books are there? My opinion holds that the bible is about 10
- percent fact, "jazzed up" with fiction to make their god represent
- more power than the other gods of the time. A bit of the old
- childhood "my Dad can beat up your Dad" scenerio. Fiction is
- important and prolific in our society. It is no wonder why the
- bible is filled with it.................sq
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