Dawn agrees on the Jesus/mob connection
Published by punkass marc May 15th, 2006 in Godbaggery, This Thing of OursDawn:
I am convinced more than ever that I, as a Christian, need to trust God and not worry so much when media events like the “Da Vinci Code” give people a distorted image of Jesus. When He wants to get His true face into the news, He does.
MICHAEL CORLEONE
Where does it say that you can’t kill a cop?
TOM HAGEN
Come on, Mikey…
MICHAEL CORLEONE
Tom, wait a minute. I’m talking about a cop — that’s mixed up in drugs. I’m talking about a- a- a dishonest cop — a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him. That’s a terrific story. And we have newspaper people on the payroll, don’t we, Tom?
[Hagen nods in the affirmative]
And they might like a story like that.
TOM HAGEN
They might, they just might…
So… does the fact that the “true” face of Jesus was decided on by a bunch of goofballs a couple hundred years after the fact, and that things were included into the cannon based not on whether they actually happened, but on whether they supported the dominant theological view?
Probably not.
But okay, let’s asume that that’s a perfectly valid way to arrive at religious truth. that the “Look at history, and pick and choose what feels right” technique will eventually lead you to empirical truth.
Well, that’s exactly, and I mean EXACTLY, how the Aztecs arrived at their religious beliefs. Right down to purging the records of contrasting views.
So, really, the Aztecs are just as likely to be right about god as Christianity.
Christianity is a dumb religion.