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What about Jesus offends you? [W 20]

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No problem with the guy.
Some of his followers though......
 
Jesus was a Righteous Dude if reports are true.
 
I tend to find that many non-Christians view Jesus as just a "everyone love each other and we're all good" kinda guy, but He wasn't.
 
Josie said:
I tend to find that many non-Christians view Jesus as just a "everyone love each other and we're all good" kinda guy, but He wasn't.
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Was not that way always:

Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar set the world buzzing when it first appeared on vinyl in 1970 and on Broadway in 1971. The executives at MCA Records were terrified by it. In reaction to the single "Superstar," one MCA exec said, "A song like that will offend everyone." Another said, "If we put that record out, every churchman in the country will stone us." It made one secretary cry, who said, "It’s sad when a company like Decca [owned by MCA] has to make money by making fun of Jesus!" Later on, the film’s director Norman Jewison would say, "My hope is that audiences will take this for what it is – an opera, not history. These kids are trying to take Jesus off the stained-glass windows and get him down on the street. Some people are not going to like that." As author Robert Short put it, "It is a complete misunderstanding to view Jesus Christ Superstar as an expression of anyone’s answer… Its purpose is, first, to put to Jesus the question we have today about the meaning of life, and second, to put this question in our own way of putting it." Tim Rice did with this story the same thing that clergy across America do every Sunday morning: remove it from its distant past and foreign culture and give it resonance and relevance to the issues and obstacles we face every day.

But today, Jesus Christ Superstar has been dumbed down, made palatable and comfortable, robbed of the rebellious, smartass attitude that originally made music and theatre history.
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Inside JC Superstar by Scott Miller
 
Josie said:
I tend to find that many non-Christians view Jesus as just a "everyone love each other and we're all good" kinda guy, but He wasn't.
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Precisely. I wonder how many of those saying "OH I have no problem with JESUS, it's just some of his FOLLOWERS" have spent much time taking in the words of Christ?

Jesus was pretty blunt, and pretty harsh.
 
JC Callender said:
So why did I post this thread then?
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How bout U tell us, and then we will compare what you say with that popcorn emoji and your admission that you may have miscalculated with that post.

How about that?

MKay?
 
JC Callender said:
How about you troll another thread?
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I have brought multiple great contributions to this thread.

Which makes Hawkeye10 the opposite of the Troll .

Of Course the WIFE says I am a narcissist.
 
cpwill said:
Precisely. I wonder how many of those saying "OH I have no problem with JESUS, it's just some of his FOLLOWERS" have spent much time taking in the words of Christ?

Jesus was pretty blunt, and pretty harsh.
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LOL....I find the exact opposite to be true. I find that those who often are quick to wrap themselves in his name, know very little about the man and his teachings.
 
I don't think anyone here would think Jesus was simply a cool dude if you met him today and he claimed to be the Son of God. You would either believe him or find him insane.
 
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LOL....I find the exact opposite to be true. I find that those who often are quick to wrap themselves in his name, know very little about the man and his teachings.
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Nah. Sure, you'll find ignorant Christians, but comparatively? :) Nope. It's the folks with the bromides and the libertine attitudes.

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JC Callender said:
I don't think anyone here would think Jesus was simply a cool dude if you met him today and he claimed to be the Son of God. You would either believe him or find him insane.
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Bingo. Jesus demonstrated an incredibly intense personality. People who met him tended to either A) devote their lives to following him, or B) hate/fear and/or try to kill him.

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cpwill said:
Bingo. Jesus demonstrated an incredibly intense personality. People who met him tended to either A) devote their lives to following him, or B) hate/fear and/or try to kill him.

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He spoke truth and people hate truth because it interferes with their personal wants and whims and how they wish things were.
 
JC Callender said:
I don't think anyone here would think Jesus was simply a cool dude if you met him today and he claimed to be the Son of God. You would either believe him or find him insane.
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Yep. He's Lord, a liar or a lunatic.
 
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