Christianity, not Paulinism

[Xeng He]

]The first recorded instance I have heard of was around 100 B.C.E., with them forgetting about it until I believe around fifty years later. Then of course the date accepted by modern civilizations for his birth stated it occured, and it was never mentioned again until Paul's writings, which actually never even mentioned his life, but only the crucifiction.

So all of it happened, but people only knew about it later. Especially seeing as people were quite willing to change the time of Jesus' birth.

[Flameswroth]

The reason I don't agree with this is because, why are the institutional and dogmatic trappings with which you're familiar more essential to Christianity than actual Christ-seeking?

Because your Christ is abstract. Moreover, there is nothing special about this perfect person to suggest that a Christ should be sought any more than people should just...strive not to be dicks to each other and build a better world. You don't need a "Christ" for that, just like you don't need a cat to seem like a humanitarian. So getting that cat, then removing all the elements of a cat that annoy you just so you can say you have it at that point just doesn't seem necessary. In fact, it seems kind of deceptive. Being able to call yourself a Christian* is probably a great cloaking device around religious relatives, as the asterisk is silent when spoken.

I dunno, I'm no scholar. I have no intellectual or moral high ground on these kinds of things. I just know that from the outside, this just looks like humanism with a 'Christ' sticker on it for aesthetics.

[NERVUN]

I just wish people would stop following Zombie'ism.