THE LAMB ISSUE

Submitted by DANIEL REDMOND (United States), Nov 24, 2009 at 20:01

If you give even a cursory reading to the Old Testament and the various editions of the Bible you will notice that references to Jesus Christ (first referred to obliquely as the "Lamb") are of scant detail at first and only grow in specifics in accordance with the chronological advance of the various Biblical revisions, up to and including the popular King James Version. What this tells me is that in all likelihood Jesus was a mythical figure to begin with and that this work of fiction benefitted from successive revisions and addendums throughout the centuries.

Most of the references to Jesus Christ were written by those who did not even live during the same time period and at the supposed time of his physical existence there were approximately forty known writers in the Middle East who never mentioned him at all. Quite an interesting omission for somehow whose existence was supposedly such a Big Event (you know, being the Son of God, and all that). There are physical artifacts to suggest the actual existence of other historical figures of the day---gold coins depicting King Herod, for instance---but literally no physical evidence of a Jesus. So if the chroniclers of Jesus mostly lived long after his death, were they 'witnesses' or merely fiction writers with good imaginations?

In any case, the whole "son of God" story is absurd, including such supernatural occurrences as the Immaculate Conception and Rising from the Dead. These are fairy tales. If it makes your life easier to believe in them, then go right ahead, but I sincerely believe that nobody who isn't brainwashed into accepting such stories as a child would willingly believe them as a rational adult later in life. Religious indoctrination is so powerful simply because it is imposed upon children at a very young age long before they have the ability to apply critical analysis to what they are being told. Having been accepted on a deep emotional level, it is often impossible to rid oneself of such delusions later in life.

But if it really makes you happy to be a believer, by all means, keep the faith.

- DANIEL

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