Comments on: “The God that Wasn’t There”: complete video now online http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/12/11/the-god-that-wasnt-there-complete-video-now-online/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:30:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: gatomjp http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/12/11/the-god-that-wasnt-there-complete-video-now-online/comment-page-1/#comment-9091 gatomjp Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:17:15 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=823#comment-9091 A challenge to believers. This is a well made documentary on several levels. It encapsulates many of the absurdities of the Jesus myth and is also a powerful personal journey for the filmmaker. I challenge any believer to watch this doc in its entirety and not be shaken. Anyone who still wants to swallow the Jesus story would have to do the mental equivalent of Olympic level gymnastics in order to explain away the information presented here. A challenge to believers.

This is a well made documentary on several levels. It encapsulates many of the absurdities of the Jesus myth and is also a powerful personal journey for the filmmaker.

I challenge any believer to watch this doc in its entirety and not be shaken. Anyone who still wants to swallow the Jesus story would have to do the mental equivalent of Olympic level gymnastics in order to explain away the information presented here.

]]> By: Douglas http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/12/11/the-god-that-wasnt-there-complete-video-now-online/comment-page-1/#comment-9090 Douglas Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:10:06 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=823#comment-9090 He makes some wonderful points, in particular how the origins of Christianity are vague at best, but bear a remarkable similarity to other folklore of the time, and that Paul – the main link between Jesus’ life and the forty years before the first of four gospels – didn’t know anything about the story of Jesus’ life… that he related to him only mystically - fascinating and telling, because if Jesus is primarily mystical then it’s a whole lot easier to embellish the story… hence the folklore of course. Also the point about how the greatest crime is to doubt that the Holy Spirit is with you always without any evidence, and that mere unspoken doubt within the depth of one’s consciousness is enough to be eternally damned with no chance of forgiveness according to both Luke and Mark. Damn!! …. no wonder Christians can’t answer reasonable questions, and no wonder they duck and avoid point after point after point after point, and in the process deny so much science and so much logic – but now I understand this denial happens because they can’t face the evidence or logic as it could lead them to doubt, and doubt is seriously problematic eternalistically speaking. It shouldn’t take any thinking person too long to see how unreasonably circular and conveniently self-reinforcing this situation is. I continue to be fascinated by the amount of tolerance these people must have for cognitive dissonance. He makes some wonderful points, in particular how the origins of Christianity are vague at best, but bear a remarkable similarity to other folklore of the time, and that Paul – the main link between Jesus’ life and the forty years before the first of four gospels – didn’t know anything about the story of Jesus’ life… that he related to him only mystically - fascinating and telling, because if Jesus is primarily mystical then it’s a whole lot easier to embellish the story… hence the folklore of course.
Also the point about how the greatest crime is to doubt that the Holy Spirit is with you always without any evidence, and that mere unspoken doubt within the depth of one’s consciousness is enough to be eternally damned with no chance of forgiveness according to both Luke and Mark.
Damn!! …. no wonder Christians can’t answer reasonable questions, and no wonder they duck and avoid point after point after point after point, and in the process deny so much science and so much logic – but now I understand this denial happens because they can’t face the evidence or logic as it could lead them to doubt, and doubt is seriously problematic eternalistically speaking. It shouldn’t take any thinking person too long to see how unreasonably circular and conveniently self-reinforcing this situation is. I continue to be fascinated by the amount of tolerance these people must have for cognitive dissonance.

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