It is easy to see that the dogmas of Christianity as propagated by Churches are false or mythical in nature and should not be taken literally—there’s no need to wallow in the fact, to say it over and over, because almost all discerning people agree. Even Jesus himself is reported to have said that he was not a lord but a brother. Apparently Jesus was not a Christian.

The actual teachings of Jesus as written have merit IMO. Even if Jesus never existed, someone wrote those parables and sermons and there is no harm in looking at them.

When presented with the staggering implications of the mystery of existence, the appropriate response is not belief or disbelief in some dogma or other. An aware person is smitten with a sense of deep awe, appreciation and reverence. His holy scripture is nature itself.

Great Scott!! you mean to say its all a bunch of boloney?

Exactly. Just like all the religions.

Yup no shit

Just like socialist religious dogma!

All the religions are fraudulent and nasty according to my female point of view.

“The Virgin Mary… We have a whole religion based on a woman who really stuck to her story.”
—Greg Giraldo

What?

Maybe but I’m pretty sure the part where the donkey talks to the man when he’s whipping him in the Old Testament is 100% true

Both of which events are central to a number of religions. That does not make Christianity a fraud....it makes Religion a fraud, whose primary purpose has always been crowd control. But I’m sure that I’m preaching at the choir here, if you’ll forgive the expression.

"I can buy the mother and the child. But not the virgin birth!"--(Some old eighteenth-century French Philosophe, or another!)

As far as I know the the word was mistranslated from "young woman" to "virgin." So the virgin birth was not a prophecy to begin with.

Also Jesus had siblings. I assume he was the oldest because if he wasn't then.........well you see where this going, right?

Perhaps Jesus didn't even exist. There are no contemporary records of him.

It's what people believed in back in those times. And those beliefs have been passed on throughout history into todays society via our parents (minus Agnostics/Athesists). As we grew older we saw the logic and questioned religion to the point that we are now agnositcs/athesists.