Your Yearly Lenten Dose of Someone Claiming to Uncover the Myth That Is Christianity:

I debated with myself about including this in the blog whatsoever but I figured everyone else is...

It has become clockwork that every Lent and Easter, someone "discovers" ancient evidence to prove that us Christians have been duped for 2000 years into believing something that we all really should have known better about. We've heard the story a thousand times: Jesus was just a man who had a really good skill in getting people to follow him. All that fun stuff that goes with divinity like virgin births, being the only child, Resurrection, Ascension, miracles, and a church are simply things people made up to get more followers. If this stuff were such breaking news, why do we only hear about it during the seasons of Lent and Easter and why do we hear the same story re-told every year?

Two reasons: People love a great conspiracy where they can throw back their heads and say: "Wow! were we dumb! They sure fooled us, and now we don't have to worry about any of this church stuff!" The second reason points to why this sort of thing is never done to Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, or any other religion for that matter: Christians just don't seem to give a care. A Muslim or Jew would never let this kinda of bashing and discrediting go on and God bless them for it. Christians need to take an example from those other communities and not take this anymore. What happened to the admonition we received from Peter: "always be prepared to make a defense" (1Peter 3:15) Instead of making a defense we move over and say "thanks for clearing this all up."

But maybe I'm just getting too caught up myself, maybe this just brings more attention to the lies, I guess in the end my point is: Why can't we get any respect?

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UPDATE: Refutations begin to pour in...

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