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The Cool Thing About Jesus

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Exactly! That's what's so cool about the J-Man. He is open-standards, non-proprietary, crowd-sourced, and infinitely adaptable.

> I've never met anyone who didn't think their accepted version of Jesus was the guy.

No longer true because now you've met me brother, a southern gothic Ulysses. :D

you're probably familiar with Elaine Pagels? the Jesus Seminar? I'm pretty sure Pagels is mentioned on GnosticBytesRadio
 
One of those blondish haired Anglo-Saxon looking Jesus pics popped up on my homepage screen the other day and by gosh--It was almost identical to the pictures of Jesus from my quasi-Methodist upbringing. No wonder I'm theologically challenged.
 
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Sorry C Prime, but Jesus' entire love, understanding, compassion and forgiveness can be summed up like this:
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You can argue til the sun burns out, but that's the bottom line.
I dunno. I always thought it was his dad that was the hardass. I still side with the compassionate, non-judgmental, anti-slut shaming, social justice side of the J-man.

Though, as Beckett says near the start of Waiting for Godot, 3 out of 4 gospel writers don't even mention the potential for full forgiveness for those thieves at Golgotha. So maybe it's not Jesus that's the problem but his biographers?
 
god eh, what a guy, fiddles with some virgin chick whilst she is asleep, gets her pregnant, and yall worship him.
me i shag ONE sheep [conscious], and they all point at me and call me 'sheepshagger'.
 
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