THE (SCIENTIFIC) DEATH OF JESUS

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Perhaps that explains the "water" that the christians keep talking about.

[the_gelf]

Spreading religious faff through pyramid emails.

[Mithridates]

Hmmm...quite apart from the errors already pointed out in regards to medical realities, I don't quite see how the fact that death by crucifixion is horrible and painful proves that Jesus died for our sins, or is the son of God.

If he existed at all, he was simply one of a number of people we know of in the first century AD who imagined themselves to be the Jewish Messiah, and believed they would lead their people to freedom from the Romans, with the help of the Big Guy upstairs.

Since the Romans had the most kick-ass army in history prior to the invention of gunpowder, it's hardly surprising that all these "Messiahs", including Mr Son of God, came to a sticky end - usually nailed to a piece of wood.

Regards

Mithridates

[gibreel farishta]

"Jesus had to endure this experience, so that you can have free access to God.
So that your sins could be "washed" away."

These original sins are based on the garden of Eden story which in itself is proven as myth, therefore the whole basis of the Christian religion that Jesus died for our sins is a nonsense.

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