Sam the Centipede wrote: ↑Wed May 04, 2022 5:14 pm
Jesuits baffle me. Allegedly super-sharp minds yet not bright enough to recognize that they're dealing with fiction, not fact.
They are sharp enough to know that the people who claim Jesus was fiction have to lie to make up the evidence for it. They can spot that kind of self delusion and hypocrisy a mile away.
As I said in another thread, you don't have to believe that Jesus was the son of God to admit the guy exists. They see people claiming that the Non christian sources who mention Jesus must be fake, and roll their eyes
They see people claiming that Jesus was based on Horus and hos battle with Set, and know that Jesus vs satan didn't involve Anal Sex and satan eating his own semen on lettuce.
They see people claiming Isis, Horus's mother was a Virgin and was the inspiration for the Virgin birth, and know that Horus was conceived by Isis having Sex with Osiris's corpse, using a magical Golden strap on dildo.
They see people claiming that there was no such thing as celibate Rabbis in Jesus's time therefore he could not be unmarried, and then have read the Dead Sea Scrolls which were written by what were celibate Scholars in Jesus's time
They see people claiming that people thought the Earth was flat in the middle ages as a reason to be Atheists and to ridicule religious people, and they have read the actual people in the Middle ages who knew the Earth was a Sphere and had a good idea of the size of the Sphere.
They know that the Jesuits defended Galileo in the first trial of the Inquisition, and wound up dragging his ass in front of the Inquisition for the second trial. They also know that Galileo failed to prove his maths predicted the motions of the planets and were basically wrong.
They also know that a Catholic Bishop brought Copernicus's Book to the printers and that the Catholic Church was an enthusiastic supporter of Heliocentrism for 60 years. And that one of the biggest denounces of Heliocentrism was one Martin Luther. They partially banned the book in response to Catholics being burned for heresy in Protestant countries for believing in Heliocenteism
They also know that the "people never do evil with as much enthusiasm as from religious conviction" is an outright fabrication of what Pascal said. It was actually "People do not do evil so cheerfully as from a false sense of conscience." hell, in the Paragraph before that Pascal was praising Christianity as the only rational religion.
In short, they can see that people who try and go with the "Jesus is fiction" angle use fiction and outright lies to try and prove it, and in short peddle outright bollox to push their bollox. Confronted with that level of horseshit, you would shake their dust from your feet and stick with the Mass and believers too.
I mean I'm not as Smart as an average Jesuit and I was correcting quotations put to me earlier in this very thread. I read the report on the Canadian Native schools and saw that it was not saying what people were wanting it to say, and I got attacked here for it. What they do is tiny compared with that.
but …
We went for a ride,
