Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
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« on: April 26, 2020, 02:36:34 PM » |
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The thing about Jesus the "moral philosopher" (Quid ergo Athenis et Hierosolymis?) is that he's really not unique and he's certainly not uniquely admirable. The "historical Jesus" is a self-aggrandizing and occasionally even violent apocalypticist who swings back and forth between preaching what was actually within the mainstream of Pharisee moral theology at the time (I'm sorry to use TV Tropes language for something so serious, but the Pharisees as portrayed in the Gospels are suffering from a historical villain upgrade) and demanding that people abandon their families and economic obligations to follow him around listening to more of this. The "Christ of faith" is the only Jesus Who's still a convincing moral exemplar once you dispense with the presupposition that you have to like the guy.
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