Blaine Coleman
2 min readFeb 19, 2023

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And you have what? Other than a collection of myths that were common thousands of years ago. God came as man and was put to death- Zoroastrianism, adopted to get gentiles onboard with Christianity, after the Church in Jerusalem, founded by the Apostle Peter and James, the brother of Jesus, couldn't compete with Paul's version of Jesus.

Noah and the Great Flood- the myth of Gilgamesh and the great flood.

Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed because of homosexuals- another "Christian" lie- If Sodom was destroyed it was because the people there failed to follow a core tenet of the Hebrew religion that was/is also a common practice in the middle east- one must always, without fail, show hospitality to strangers.

Mary Magdelene was a whore- no, she was Mary of Magda, a small fishing village that existed at the time of Jesus and she was wealthy widow said to have helped support Jesus and the Apostles, but the early Church founders refused to accord women any respect, especially if it conferred the status of helping Jesus in any way. Women were chattel to be bought and sold- usually in marriage- the idea of marriage for "love" is a modern concept, as is treating women as equals.

The book of Genesis- two conflicting accounts of creation- which is true, and which is a lie? You have no answer for that, and I assume you weren't even aware of that fact. I also assume you'll come provide some verses taken out of context that contradict those things too, right? There were thousands of stories and writings about Jesus, but the Church cherry-picked what bolstered their claims and destroyed as many of the others as possible.

I'm sure you've been told things by preachers who have a personal state in keeping the status quo, just as the Sanhedrin needed Jesus put to death because he was costing the Priests precious money and they couldn't tolerate that. You are so full of certainties that you refuse to entertain any fact that questions your worldview that you refuse to care about what Jesus taught. And that wasn't that he would save your soul or anyone else's. It was/is that each man must accept the love God put in the heart of all people and then they would know God because they know love of neighbor. That finding God is a personal experience, no go-between needed. It was the Hebrew Priests who set up that system. And you use stories taken from the Old Testament that were included in the New testament as historical "proof" that you're right. But you don't have much of an argument so everyone else should take your word as unquestionable facts, absolute truth. Nice try, though.

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Blaine Coleman
Blaine Coleman

Written by Blaine Coleman

Rel. Studies, Creative Writing… Social liberal/fiscal conservative, occasional writer- profile pic- 6-yr-old coal minor 1910-flow with the Tao, all will be well

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