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About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
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A lot of polytheistic religions do regard Jesus as another deity. I think the main religions that disapprove would be Judaism, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, other Unitarian groups, and Atheism
Also you’re forgetting Hindu, Jainism, Zoroastrianism and plenty more that I just don’t have patience to list. There are literally hundreds in practice and thousands historically.
Hinduism is polytheistic
Yes. Not including Jesus. Poly just means more than one. They have a very specific set of gods. None are Jesus.
Basically every Hindu I've interacted with has just seen Jesus as "another god" and has had no issue with Christians worshipping Jesus. jesus hindus are also a thing.
Everything is a thing eventually somewhere. Heh.
There’s even Jews for Jesus. They believe he maybe was the messiah (“moshiach”) and that our people dropped the ball on that. Weird stuff. Culturally I find it odd yet interesting. Belief-wise I know it’s all mythology from a primitive time. But whatevs.
The "Jews for Jesus" thing aren't really the same religion as the modern-day Jews. You're probably thinking of messianic Judaism which is a denomination/practice of Christianity. It did exist in the early Church and kind of was revived by Christian missionaries to Jewish communities. Essentially the Bible permits and in some ways encourages the observation of Jewish laws for converts.
Fun fact, a lot of traditional Christian movements have preserved Pre-Jesus Jewish practises such as appointed psalms, raising the Gospel for a reading in church (pre-jesus jews did this with the torah), Church architecture itself is reminiscent of the Temple.
Being a Jewish atheist myself I guess I qualify for two.
No, just Atheist
Well, you clearly don’t have a grasp on what the full meaning of either is. But I am exactly as I stated. You should not presume to know other people especially strangers you’ve never met.
I was talking about religion. It's impossible to be a religious Jew and an Atheist. Sure, "Jew" means a lot of things such as race and a culture, but this conversation was about religion so mixing it like that is intellectually dishonest, so it's best to nip it in the bud before people start twisting words with different definitions. Jesus was ethnically a Jew, so were the Disciples and many in the Church to this day are ethnically Jews, so to claim Jews are against Jesus and to start talking about race is a dangerous rabbit-hole.
Yes I see your point. And I was raised completely orthodox so I’m familiar with that aspect of it and how much of a part it plays. But yes I consider myself very much to be a Jew in more than just lineage. But I do take your point.
Regarding Jews regard for Jesus in general the attitude is that if he even existed, he was trying to change things in a way that would corrupt the religion. People have many many theories but most scholars don’t even concede he even existed. There are Jesus-like characters with many of the same traits that are part of religions that predate all abrahamic lore.
Stuff is very complex. Weird though how this discussion moved into this. I like it though. I mean, I was only joking around with my comment but I’m happy to have engaged in this convo. Very nice.
(I presume this isn't regarding Jewish scholars and just scholars in general) This isn't true- like at all. Jesus mysticism isn't a mainstream scholarly opinion, even among secular scholars like Bart Ehrman who wrote in his book Did Jesus exist?
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Who also wrote for the Huffington Post:
Wow you so went to far too much effort. I could cite a million references that agree with what I stated as well. I’m not going to because I never intended for this to turn into a kind of debate. You can choose to believe what you want, regardless of reality; I mean, that’s what religious belief is. You seem to seek out whatever agrees with you and don’t bother to learn the contrary. Or maybe you do. Whatever. I really have no intention to continue this. What I wanted to say has been said, so, fini.
Truth is objective and immovable. And it's an undeniable fact that Jesus of Nazareth is a real figure.