Do you think if the Judeo-christian god comes back, he would ever want to see another cross? To me anyway, wearing that cross as a piece of jewelery, would be like walking up to Jackie Onassis with a sniper rifle pendent and say "Just thinkin about John, we loved him so". There is just something that seems a little off there 2 me, thats all

What?

That is a good question

In the first place, "the Judeo-christian god" has never left here, and will remain long after "Mankind" has left this planet...

rejoice!

Where is he hiding? Cause there is alot of disease, destruction, hunger, crime, corruption ,etc,he needs to be dealing with right about now

I believe in a tasty chilled chocolate or strawberry milkshake right about now

A banana shake sounds darn good right about now, yummy

Read the good book

There is a huge irony in the idea that we should somehow be proud of the fact that we were the supposedly the reason that God had to have his son nailed to a pole. You'd think we'd want to bury that fact rather than wear golden representations of it as pendants.

There does seem to be conflicting idea of why the crucifixion was even necessary. No religious person or clergy has ever explained this in a way that I've found satisfactory.

First off, they always say that with God anything is possible. Yet God could not forgive the sins of man without first making a blood sacrifice?

Who was the sacrifice made TO?

Well it certainly wasn't made to man! It would make no sense for a god to make a sacrifice to appease men. Men were the guilty party supposedly.

So who's left?

Well there's only God, and Satan left.

So did God sacrifice his own son as an apeasement to HIMSELF?

That's seems both strange and even demented. That would imply that God was somehow pleased by the sacrifice. So the idea that God needed to appease himself by "sacrificing" his own son unto himself is truly a ludicous idea.

The only other person left to appease is Satan. In fact, many people claim that Jesus was indeed somehow a 'sacrifice' from God to 'beat' Satan. Satan was said to have 'lost the war' due to the sacrifice of God's son.

But wait a minute. That implies that Satan was a REAL THREAT to God. So much so that God actually had to do something very desperate to beat Satan. It implies that God was desperate, and that Satan was a real threat to God.

But those notions are brushed off by Christians as being absurd. Satan was never a threat to God they claim.

But how can God be a 'war' with someone who is powerless to threaten him?

The whole thing is crazy if you ask me and it makes absolutely no sense at all.

As a completely fabricated fairytale one could argue that it makes sense as a parable. To that I would agree. But the idea that these God's and Demons actually existed and these events were real and actually unfolded in history is truly absurd, IMHO.

I would NOT want to believe ON PURE FAITH that our creator had to have his son nailed to a pole to save us from HIS WRATH.

That's just totally unreasonable. And the whole idea of a powerless fallen angel that is giving God such a hard time that God has to restort to desperation to save souls is outside the realm of reason too as far as I'm concerned.

It's just not a rational picture at all.

I have, its a beastial book full of Rape, incest,torture and vengance, and un-enlighted idiocy, ie stoning/murdering kids for insubordination and people that differ from what the writer wrote...Not really my cup of Tea

I have met someone who claimed he is a vampire and has mentioned that the people who wrote the bible where vampires who lusted for blood, sacrifices, and other cruel measurements.

I can't imagine how hungry it makes them to see a dying man full of blood nailed to a cross!

This world is full of crazy people either way.

In the end if we are truthful to ourselves and to others we don't know what happens in our afterlife (if there is one) or the "why's" on certain things we have been asking for thousands of years.

We have theories though. So this is a start at least.

Fixed.


Dude.....that's plagiarism.

I don't think that it is the symbol of the cross that would disturb Him, but the fact that so many people use it in the wrong way. They wear it to say in an outwardly fashion, Hey, I am a Christian, yet there walk and talk betray them. THIS is what I think that the "Judeo-Christian" Jesus would have issue with. After all......it is not what the cross is made of but What the cross was made for that sets it apart.
CG

nice, Bill Hicks

i think this is a great answer.

nice point...

I don't think it would be well recieved... It is after all made in the image of a man...

which means it has nothing to do with god.

Hehe, i love Bill Hicks, it was a shame he had to die so young, he always asked the best questions