/lit/ - Literature

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The Old Testament is full of lies. The Israelites were never enslaved as an entire race in Egypt. The God El is a Canaanite God and the Israelites and Judahites were pagans who worshipped El, among others.

The story of the Garden of Eden is an allegory for the destruction of the First Temple by the Babylonians, and, during the Babylonian Exile, the theology of the Jews was interpolated over older stories and laws.

The only extra-biblical mentions of Jesus in the 1st Century have all proven to be forgeries. The Gospels were not written by the apostles, but by people pretending to be the apostles two generations too late.

The story of Jesus is largely borrowed from Serapis, Dionysus and Mithra, whose stories were also largely borrowed from the various cults of the same region.

There is goo evidence to suggest that Nazareth never existed in the time of Jesus, and the current Nazareth was placed based on guesses about what the Gospels describe. Maps of pilgrimages undertaken by early Christians pass very close to Nazareth, but do not stop there.

It goes on and on. All religions are the product of cultural syncretism, people pray to heal cancer but don't pray to heal a severed limb, the laws of nature in old religious texts proved to be very innacurate, proving they are not of divine origin...

In the end, a religious person can only fall back on faith generated by their personal upbringing and their religious experiences. Religious experiences have been studied extensively in many forms and the universal aspects have proven not to generate similar wisdom or truth. This is know as the Problem of Inconsistent Revelation.

In short, Christianity = Fail.