Matthew's Journal

Apathistisic liberal atheist with added sarcasm and cheese as most people know, but I do have a view on this:

The Cross as a Milestone: I don't believe in the resurection or that there is a God for Jesus to be the son of, so most of the above interpretations make little sense to me. What I do believe is that Jesus was a rather charismatic, well spoken individual in the right time at the right place to spread a philosophy which was roughly: "Don't be shit to each other". The cross represents the point at which everything started going wrong in this whole affair; Jesus was turned into a faultess matyr; people started speaking for him and using the supernatural to enforce their views and interpretations as the "right" one. So the cross seems mainly a transition to me, where christianity goes from the teachings of a guy who had some pretty good ideas to a fully blown religion with all that goes with it.

I won't claim to be any sort of biblical scholar so I may well be contradicted on this by somebody who's actually sat down and read the bible but that's what I think. Details and semantic quibbles have been skipped over as I think they're unimportant and detract from the core argument.

You did say you wanted to know what we thought.