[extropy-chat] Christianity (Was Transhumanism: Social Equality and Politics)

[Zero Powers]

Robert, the issues you raise with the development of the Christian canon are
precisely what started me down the road to conversion.  About 10 years ago I
was an evangelical christian and came across The Jesus Seminar's "The
Complete Gospels"
http://westarinstitute.org/Polebridge/Title/Complete/complete.html

Which introduced me to the works of the Jesus Seminar.  It wasn't long after
reading some of their excellently researched and written books (including
"Honest to Jesus," "The Acts of Jesus," and "The Historical Jesus") that my
conversion began.  I went from being a Christian, to an agnostic, to (now)
an atheist.

I checked out the PBS website to see what I could find on the show you
mentioned and here it is:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/story/emergence.html

-Zero

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury at aeiveos.com>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 2:28 AM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Transhumanism: Social Equality and Politics


Where I have a problem is as you point out "belief not based in proof"
and where I get particularly annoyed is with the "fiction" that may
be involved in the Christian gospels (the recent PBS special I observed
documented how the gospels were written long after Christ may have been
alive, were selected from multiple histories available for political
purposes, and so on and so forth).  The situation in the Iraq at
this time is probably little different (multiple factions fighting
for their beliefs when there are nothing but hand-me-down stories
that their beliefs are accurate much less reasonable).