Flogging a dead horse, and or sodomizing the followers?

[Old Hippie]

Time for a racist stereotype joke… How did the Romans know Christ was a Jew? He didn’t leave home until he was 30, went into his father’s business and he his mother thought he was god and he thought she was a virgin…

 

[Old Hippie]

23 hours ago, Coss said:

Well yes, at first, but then the boy had to find a reason for why he was so f'n wonderful in his father's eyes, whilst he world was ignoring him, so grifting was his path.

Oddly, most of the world never heard of him until Europeans (Spanish for 1) started traveling the world and blabbing their nonsense…yet, for some reason, 3 wise men from the east did and showed up on the eve of his birth (or was it later, as was later claimed?) with gifts because they just some how knew this was a “child of god…” One version goes, Buddhist monks showed up with the relics of Buddha, to see if this kid was the reincarnation of Buddha…the story ends there… Why?

[Mekong]

2 hours ago, Old Hippie said:

3 wise men from the east did and showed

Another misdemeanor, the Bible makes no mention of Three wise men, only wise men from the East. Who is to say that there were only two, one bringing Gold and the other the fragrances Frankincense and Myrrh, or maybe there were 12 of them and only three brought gifts and the others were cheap Charlie’s.

Matthew 12 if you want to look it up, no I am not Theist, I have actually read the Bible cover to cover 

[bust]

There are so many versions of this. One is also that the 3 wise men was actually  only 2. They joined Gasper (Kaspar) (Caspar) who had already arrived at the stable. He was a Persian carpet salesman who just happened to be passing through.

[Old Hippie]

So this was a popular birth at the time, then we didn’t hear shit from him for what about 30 years or something then bam, back in the news..!  All the pictures have him looking young and ripped in a time of poor sanitation and nutrition when no one exercised and the life expectancy was what like 25?

[Old Hippie]

4 hours ago, Mekong said:

Another misdemeanor, the Bible makes no mention of Three wise men, only wise men from the East. Who is to say that there were only two, one bringing Gold and the other the fragrances Frankincense and Myrrh, or maybe there were 12 of them and only three brought gifts and the others were cheap Charlie’s.

Matthew 12 if you want to look it up, no I am not Theist, I have actually read the Bible cover to cover 

A quick google gives this “… Balthasar is often represented as a king of Arabia or sometimes Ethiopia, Melchior as a king of Persia, and Gaspar as a king of India…”  So 3…I read the Bible in high school…didn’t like it I hear the faithful readers have been waiting a long time for the sequel .

[bust]

This is what I mean. So many different versions an the reality is we will never know.

I actually took a bit of interest in this (not religious by any means) as when my ex-wife and I decided to have children we wanted to give them names with a story to them. John for boys Susan for girls just didn't do it for us. We ended up having to boys. The first one we named after a famous Roman mythology about a couple of lads left on a river bank and raised by a K9. The second one was named after one of the subjects of this discussion.

[Mekong]

5 hours ago, Old Hippie said:

A quick google gives this “… Balthasar is often represented as a king of Arabia or sometimes Ethiopia, Melchior as a king of Persia, and Gaspar as a king of India…”  So 3…I read the Bible in high school…didn’t like it I hear the faithful readers have been waiting a long time for the sequel .

But that is only a suggestion, someone making more shit up about made up Shit, The Goat Herders Guide to the Galaxy does not specify the number of wise men, it’s just self important assholes adding their 2 Cents worth 

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[Coss]

One is of course in agreement with all the above.

In the vein of "History is written by the victor" we could also add in this "history of religion" context, "History is written by the aggrandiser".

[Old Hippie]

4 hours ago, Mekong said:

But that is only a suggestion, someone making more shit up about made up Shit, The Goat Herders Guide to the Galaxy does not specify the number of wise men, it’s just self important assholes adding their 2 Cents worth 

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Agreed.