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And beold, a seed of truth was planted in the womb of my mind. In secret I labored with it, and in due season I did give birth to it in my words, saying "behold this word, which is the child of the Most High. Let Nature bear witness of this child-gift that wise men have so long awaited. Yea, for this word will mature, and in due season she will open her pages so that all might enter her, and partake of her beauty, her comfort, and the sunshine of her love. For she is as a candle, as 7 candles, illuminating the darkness with her revelations.

Wow, that's absolutely beautiful! Are you a gifted poet or did you just forget to post credits to the source?

At any rate, thanks for that. Mind if I use it?

What did he have to teach the Buddhists they didn't already know?

What could a race advanced light-years ahead of humanity teach us? The Buddhists are humans. The sum of their knowledge is a mere drop in the ocean of what can be known. There is so much that Buddhists don't know, it's not funny.

I doubt the historical Jesus ever went that far east.

The "historical Jesus"? What exactly does that mean? Is there a difference between the historical 'Morality Games' and just plain ol' Morality Games? Why don't people say "the historical Charles Darwin" or "the historical Abraham Lincoln"? Is that just a catchphrase used by those who doubt His existence? Is it an attempt to discredit who He says He was all the while conceding that He actually did exist (as a mere human being)?

It wasn't really that "far east"...half an hour, tops.

It would be laughable - but.. there are World Population Clock people dependant upon clear thinking.. logical minds.. for our survival.

That, indeed, is laughable.

wiccan paganism makes more sense than christianity.

Does it, now?

Ancient man, fighting for survival, forraging for food and clean water. They worship the tree that bears fruit and feeds them. They worship the earth, from which crops are grown to sustain a village, they worship the stream, fed by the spring that quenches their thirst.

How stupid is that? Do you worship the trees or the earth (or the farmers) which feed you? Your mistake is your brain-washed idea that "ancient man" was somehow more ignorant (had less of a brain) than modern man. If you don't feel an urge to worship 'false gods', it's not very logical to assume that ancient man did, either. In fact, it's very presumptuous.

The landscape you paint is false. It's no wonder that your conclusions are all wrong.

Christians worship a man who (may have) lived and died 2000 yrs ago. They also worship a collection of ancient scripts, whose authors are not entirely known, that is mostly a compilation of fantasy and fiction stories that have no foundation for being factual besides being set in real cities.

Or, it could all be based on actual experiences. Imagine that, if you can. Let's say that the very first man on earth experienced a relationship with an alien being who said He was his Creator. This Being was so terrifying to behold (because of His powerful nature) and so advanced beyond belief, that any future references to Him (absent His literal presence) would be of mythological proportions.

Myths and legends aren't created by fertile imaginations. They are explanations for realities long forgotten.

Had Jesus just been a man, people would not worship Him today. It's the fact that He performed amazing 'miracles' (scientific feats that defied imagination) that makes Him remembered.

It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to suggest that mankind just made up a bunch of gods to worship unless a God had been experienced from the very beginning.

If I was the first man, I would be less gullible than I am today. I wouldn't carry the extra baggage of indoctrination and speculative history. I would deduce all things from my experiences through life. It is modern man that has become more superstitious and less intelligent, but he can hardly be conscious of that.

Christianity has been used as a supressive tool historically ... over and over ... it shouldn't be given deference to paganism.

Besides the point. Men have always been oppressive towards one another, Christianity or not.

Truth should always be given preference over lies, don't you think?

Paganism is an attempt to worship the things that obviously give them physical sustenence ... That is more sensible than following an ancient institution with such a horrific history founded on social control, supression, war, torture, abuse, fraud, etc etc etc.

No matter how horrific man's history, reality is more sensible than fantasy. Fantasy is an attempt to escape reality, not an attempt to embellish it with sordid details of man's abject humanity.

If the Bible was a fantastical, mythological creation, why not make it more attractive? What's the purpose of painting God as an unlovable Being? Where is the logic in that?