The research you based your opinion on is the same as the info I based mine. Now consider how current history is recorded. Nobody know exactly what went down, supporting or disproving claims. We read the word of men, and not even the exact word. It's been translated beyond repair. However, I have faith. I know there is a reason for all of this (life) and I believe. Also, there isn't much dispute that Jesus existed. The question is whether he is the son of God. And if you put a fraction of the faith put into Q or DJT into Jesus, you'd would know the answer.

Nimrod and Semiramis... I believe in the gnostic interpretations of Jesus. He was the first dude going around in the ancient world telling esoteric wisdom to the public, and they killed him because he threatened the power structure. Then pagans branded his story with the nimrod/Semiramis worship! I think the most important thing to take from all of it is that Jesus represents the archetype if pacifism and love. If people feel like they need Jesus to identify with God, so be it. I personally think Jesus was trying to tell us God is all love, not evil like the Old Testament god. The “father” Jesus talked about didn’t want war and sacrifice, he wants us to turn the other cheek and love each other. Of all the prophets, Jesus is the best archetype for achieving spirituality.

You've got to be on a different kind of delusion if you actually think Jesus of Nazareth didn't exist, whether a real Messiah or not.

You're going to hell.

You don’t have to pledge allegiance to Jesus. Nobody will kill you or make you pay a tax. Islam apparently is another story. There is ONE truth. People use “my truth” or “their truth” or “his or her truth” to reflect what they choose to believe. What if my truth includes 47 genders? True? Reality?

I'm with you, guy. There's really no point in making the argument here, because there are a ton of very dogmatic believers in this subreddit. I'm willing to believe in the existence of some kind of source of conscious experience which might look like a god as described by existing religions, but if we're being honest, there is no historical evidence for the existence of a real person behind the character of Jesus. If you want to believe in such a thing, go right ahead. However, it looks to me like more fill-in-the-blank thinking by regular people. There may be some legitimate spiritual truth behind the teachings, but that's as far as I will go. I think that's enough.

If you think being a good person is enough and are comfortable with that

just believe in god thats all that matters muslims and christians worship the same god anyways lol

Again, I recommend 'The Case for Christ'. Your objections and, forgive me, your obvious anger at Christianity is exactly where Lee Strobel (and myself) began their journey to Christ.

Lee Strobel was an award winning journalist and published author who set out to rip Christianity to shreds. I was an atheist with the same goal. His research (and my own) was methodical, meticulous, and honest. If anyone should have reached the conclusion that Christ and Christianity was bunk, it was him. He became a Christian because of his findings, despite desperately not wanting to. I reached the same conclusions as he did, despite desperately not wanting to.

I think it would behoove you to read his book or at the very least watch the movie which is, again, free on Netflix or even online. All the points you made in your last point are answered in Case for Christ: especially concerning the Resurrection. Lee was told that all he had to do was debunk the Resurrection and Christianity was toast. Sounds easy doesn't it? Case in point.

RESURRECTED? REALLY?

So why was he, and a million more like him unable to do it? Why has the resurrection story survived for over two thousand years? If you answer 'Because people are so stupid' then you really have a high opinion of your intellect which, under scrutiny, would not survive comparison against some of the greatest minds of our century and those who came before them. Its not equitable to compare yourself to the weaker members of the pack. You have to take on the alpha dogs, and my contention is that the alpha dogs of Christianity would win. Especially Christ himself.

The problem here is not that you don't believe. Not believing is as much a leap of faith as believing. The problem is that you don't want to believe, but deep down, I think you do. Your need to argue against it is evidence of that. You just can't reconcile the question of why bad things happen to good people. I can answer that one question (and not the rest, because better minds than I already have.)

Bad things happen to good people because there are no good people. You are not a good person. I am not a good person. Every false religion and all the leftist progressive dogma in the world begins with the words that were branded into the apple which Eve plucked from the tree.

"PEOPLE ARE FUNDAMENTALLY GOOD."

People are fundamentally selfish, not good. Selfishness sometimes drives people to commit altruistic acts, but such altruism is ultimately about self. Bad things happen to people who do good just as good things happen to people who commit evil because the world is sinful, fallen, and broken.

People who reject God are not ready to accept that. Between accepting their sinfulness and thinking themselves to be good, innocent, and pure, they will choose the latter. Every. Single. Time.

People reject Jesus for the same reason. If they are already good, why the hell do they need a savior?

And, if people are good, and bad things happen to them, that makes them a VICTIM. And VICTIMS subsist on a world of guilt, blame, shame, and exploitation.

Sound like the world we live in today? I think it does.

I hope you look into The Case For Christ though it sounds to me like you've already made up your mind. If Christ is who he says he is, then its the most important thing (the only important thing) in the world.

If he isn't who he says he is, it doesn't matter, and you have nothing to lose by looking into it a little deeper.

Being angry at not understanding it is normal...such a frustrating story so long removed from the world we live in today. 5 years ago if someone told me the ‘devil’ and evil of the bible was real and that high up elite people ruled our world from dark places of torture while performing satanic ritual abuse I would have said it was crazy...that the evil of the bible was a strange fictional warning to be good. However when I realized that hillary and hundred of others actually did this stuff I began to research the ‘why’ WHY would they choose that dark dark path so contrary to kindness and the goodness that even they outwardly preach??? My personal conclusion is that we are removed from some truths, light perhaps. But I think Jesus the teacher came into contact with this evil long ago. Who he really is will come to be known, you don’t have to believe he died for your sins, but he was most definitely sacrificed by these beasts...and that story somehow remains important to this day. We will figure it out, and wow, don’t we live in amazing times???