Jesus poll. Did he exist? Son of God. A Man?

[maveric]

Poll question: Jesus poll. Did he exist? Son of God. A Man?

Just wondering what the DU consensus is.
My choice is #2.

Poll result (25 votes)
Yes Jesus existed and was the true Son of God.	(8 votes, 32%)	Vote
Yes, but he was a "Man" who was executed for being an agitator who exposed hypocracy in the religous and political systems during those times.	(11 votes, 44%)	Vote
Jesus never existed and was a composite made up of other messiah types.	(4 votes, 16%)	Vote
Other. Explain.	(2 votes, 8%)	Vote

[Ava]

1. my choice is number one

did i dare just say that on DU?

let's hope i don't get flamed now.

[Mutley]

3. Anyone who flames you for that is a jerk.

[Ava]

5. it's happened before

mainly in PM's but a while back it happened on a thread.

thanks mutley_r_us

[billyskank]

6. Anyone who flames you for that is guilty of the intolerance

they accuse the religious fundamentalists of.

[Ava]

9. I know. EXACTLY what I'm thinking!

i love you billy! lol

[billyskank]

21. Been flamed in the religion forum, I guess

I never go in there. I can't be bothered with arguments over religion; they're pointless. Either you believe or you don't. Theists and atheists alike should both learn to leave each other alone.

[catbert836]

7. Just don't go into R/T

You're on safe ground now, but the minute you post in R/T, me and my grouchy atheist doppelgangers will tear you to shreds...

[Ava]

8. exactly my point

there is no point in discussing religion with people who are just going to call you a "blind believer" and an idiot for your beliefs.

and the thread I'm talking about was in GD but eventually got moved to R/T (i quit posting then)

[catbert836]

13. Most of us don't do that.

And we would never do it to you, we like your animations too much to make you a sacrifice to Satan. But the minute you lose your touch...

[Ava]

lol! well thanks!

i think!

[mdmc]

2. Jesus was a man that was the Son of God

he did neat miracles and had kids. He died for our sins.

[ZombieNixon]

4. I picked number two.

As an agnostic, it seemed the logical choice.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

10. Christ is my King.

He has proven His friendship with me personally on many occasions. He walks at my side at all times.

[AtomicKitten]

11. Who really knows?

The Bible has been so bastardized through the ages by those seeking advantage vis a vis church dogma, by human errors in translation, by editorializing and omission. Also some tend to invoke the Old Testament eye for an eye rhetoric as an excuse for their bad behavior, ignoring the more pithy (and beautiful) Psalms, Proverbs, and New Testament.

I guess after years of study, I'm an agnostic.

[ghostsofgiants]

12. I think he existed, but his story was probably exaggerated a little...

His name was probably Jeff, or something, not Jesus. And he was probably a masseuse (hence the whole healing with his hands thing), you know, not the messiah. So people would come away from their massages and say "Oh man, you gotta go see Jeff, he's a miracle worker!" He had a few fans, so someone decided to write a book about him, but you know, who the hell wants to read a book about a massuse named Jeff? So they sexed it up with a little magic, and there you go.

Oh yeah, I picked #2.

[ZombieNixon]

15. His name was probably "Jeshua"

"Jeshua" multiplied by Greek equals "Jesus"

Jeshua Ben Joseph is a pretty good guess as to his full name.

Jeshua "Magic Hands" Ben Joseph...yep, that's the man.

[ghostsofgiants]

16. I actually knew that...

But Jeff just seems funnier than Jeshua, haha. (Also, I stole the joke for the most part, and Jeff was the name used by the original comedian.)

[ZombieNixon]

18. Another miracle:

Jesus was an only child, because who would want to be Jerry, the brother of Christ?

[ghostsofgiants]

19. No kidding.

Hell, being Christ's neighbour Brian seemed bad enough.

[datasuspect]

14. god jr.?

i thought his flesh was a foodstuff and his blood a beverage.

[u4ic]

17. A revolutionary - #2

though I sometimes waffle between that and him being a composite.

[LeftyMom]

20. I don't think he ever existed

There was no village at Bethlehem at the time he was supposedly born, his story is an obvious amalgam of previous deities (primarily Mithra, but there's a little Osiris thrown in there) and it's really fishy for there to be no contemporaneous or nearly contemparaneous evidence for an important individual in a Roman occupied land, since the Romans documented *everything.* Also, the gospel accounts are rather contradictory, with the writers unable to agree on even basic but vitally important facts like the geanelogy of Jesus.

[terrya]

22. Locking

Gee, the popcorn smiley is in that post. Gosh, I wonder what THAT means.