Easter is upon us - what is the real resurrection story?

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Resurrection .... does it matter?

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Screw Jesus and his Father's big prick.

Poor little Mary. It must have hurt.


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He is Risen! He is Risen indeed!

Being faithful to what i personally believe!

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I don’t accept all of the Bible - I think the Catholic church (councils etc) warped a lot to suit their agendas - to make spirituality more about the church and outward nonsense than what it really is. There’s no money in the axiomatic truth Christ taught- that “the kingdom of God is within you.” They warped it into human sacrifice scapegoating - evil disguised as good.

I believe in Christ - but not Catholicism’s adopted version. And I believe in life after death - but that doesn’t require human sacrifice scapegoating. For Easter, I focus on symbolism of spring - being born again & again... spiritually (or psychologically: positive disintegration).
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Amore wrote:I don’t accept all of the Bible - I think the Catholic church (councils etc) warped a lot to suit their agendas - to make spirituality more about the church and outward nonsense than what it really is. There’s no money in the axiomatic truth Christ taught- that “the kingdom of God is within you.” They warped it into human sacrifice scapegoating - evil disguised as good.


I think the original authors of the scripture were inventing stories and sharing their own opinions and literary ideas. It didn't have to wait until hundreds of years later to be warped, it is warped right from the get go. There is no such thing as purity of "original" scripture. Original scripture iteslf is problematic. It wasn't later people and events that warped and changed scripture, it was never originally true in the first place. THAT is the truth later churches have covered up and fooled with world about.
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Philo Sofee wrote:I think the original authors of the scripture were inventing stories and sharing their own opinions and literary ideas. It didn't have to wait until hundreds of years later to be warped, it is warped right from the get go. There is no such thing as purity of "original" scripture. Original scripture iteslf is problematic. It wasn't later people and events that warped and changed scripture, it was never originally true in the first place. THAT is the truth later churches have covered up and fooled with world about.

Who really knows?
The 1st Christians were thought to be Gnostics and saw Christ as a spirit - never a man. But maybe some authors of the 4 gospels (and the others the Catholic church discarded) drew on metaphors and parables, to try to convey spiritual truths. How do you tell of spiritual truths? Maybe by stories. If you approach the Bible as not so much literal as attempts to tell of spiritual (or universally personal) truths, I think it’s healthier.

Scripture are given a much higher - deified - status than they’re due. They may have spiritual truth, and have shaped society historically more than any other books, but I wish more would realize the authors, editors, etc had their own flaws.
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