There is no atheist in the US congress, meaning is Christianity is the dominant decision makers. The same problem in history has been Stalin and Mao with non believers of God as they assume to be God's. The point is centroism or absolute powers alway corrupts and harms the vast majority of the people. Who were naturally born bio organisms and individuals first. Give power to the people first no matter what sub group they belong to. Stateist and Bankers are the greatest scammer and keep Government to the small stuff .

@Castlepaloma zYou can only keep the bankers in check with strong government regulations.

@Flyingsaucesir

Or one can avoid those scammers mostly and keep our own checks and balances. Most people do not know how to or be creative enough to break away from their owners.

@Castlepaloma Without the ability to lend or borrow capital, our economy would grind to a screeching halt. The world you propose has probably never existed, but the next closest thing hasn't been seen since the middle ages.

Jesus is the most popular human in human history. It also shows us that history is full of lies. Top authorities decide what time it is and most of them are religious through death and taxes.

I've read a birthdate of April something based on visibility of this star he was born under and temperature for a manger birth. Twain was born under Halley's Comet so it would follow that he was also Divine. I'm reading his autobiography and he talks about god but only in a referential manner (i.e., If god so loved the world then why give us Brett Harte? ).

If he's so cherished by the followers why doesn't anyone know what his life was like? Day to day between birth and death? If he was a carpenter wouldn't his buildings be immortalized? Is there no life between birth and death? The dates chosen to be his birthday etc are all days stolen from the pagans. They were just having too much fun fornicating and drinking and we all know how everyone hates other people having fun in the streets.
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@rainmanjr

There are many Copy cat stories about Jesus and many made up stories from writers, and many wrong translation. Because Jesus didn't know how to write, first of all. It's why the Bible is the most controversial and contradiction book ever written. The true God's has been the Kings, the Government and updated corporationism. Through politricks, mass hsynosposia, and mass distraction times,. And above all, greed, especially recently.

@rainmanjr A manger birth. Most people are not aware that in those times the animals were on the bottom floor of the Inn. This would be the "manger" that we Westerners so often speak of. It should also be noted that anyone writing of this Jesus birth had no way of knowing anything about stars that could have influenced the event or even if stars were present. Ancient goat herders knew very little about stars or any heavenly events. For sake of importance they made things up.

@DenoPenno TBF, people get hobbies and goat herders were out all night looking up. We really don't know what they noticed about them. But the birth star was bright so astronomers have an idea of which event that was and an estimate for when it would have been visible. April of '03 AD is what I've seen.

@rainmanjr

I sculpture portrait of people often. The greatest requested kind of sculpture isJesus. Since they claimed they have witness the great JC , I asked. What does JC look like?, Does he have blue eyes or is he black, brown or white?. Many Hindus and Muslims claimed JC lived in India from age 13 to 30, any pictures from there.?
These Christians are all over the map.

@rainmanjr, @DenoPenno

If Mary had a baby that was pregnant by God. Who is going to believe a Jewish lady. Another case, of the passion of the Jews