# My Amazing Encounters with Jesus Christ **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 2, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774 "2016-03-02T22:47:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 25
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/481 "2016-03-10T23:33:29Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > God is not the asshole. He sacrificed His very own Son for the forgiveness of our sins. Why? If he’s omnipotent, he didn’t need to go through all that drama. Just make a pronouncement, via prophets, as he always did. Nobody needed to die. God is an ineffectual and very silly character in a really badly-written book. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/482 "2016-03-10T23:37:25Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > How are we to reconcile the two jesuses? The one in the gospels is a peace, love and understanding hippie type guy, but then you get to revelation wherein he is depicted as a glorious martial hero riding a white steed and spitting swords. Seems inconsistent. He’s a mean drunk. ---
**Author:** ![ScottRP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@ScottRP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScottRP)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/483 "2016-03-10T23:40:02Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > God is an ineffectual and very silly character in a really badly-written book. I have seen Jesus and heard the voice of God and I am here to bear witness to and give testimony of Them. ---
**Author:** ![ScottRP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@ScottRP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScottRP)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/484 "2016-03-10T23:41:49Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > He’s a mean drunk. If you really knew God and His Son, you would not be speaking ill of them. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/485 "2016-03-10T23:44:55Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > My work has been reviewed by the highest of priests. Jesus Christ Himself. And was approved for the atonement of the dead. I’ll take that as a no. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/486 "2016-03-10T23:45:58Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > If you really knew God and His Son, you would not be speaking ill of them. I grew up a member of the Catholic church. Confirmation, Confession, Communion, Ash Wednesday, Holy days of obligation - the works. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/487 "2016-03-10T23:46:16Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > If you really knew God and His Son, you would not be speaking ill of them. We do know them. That’s why we speak ill. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/488 "2016-03-10T23:47:12Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > [The first cell phone.](http://i.imgur.com/UbjTdQG.jpg) Pshaw. That’s nothing. How about [the first “GPS” navigator](http://www.bomfstore.org/Portals/0/liahona.jpg)? You’re not proving anything here with your posts in this thread. Well, you are, but it’s not what you seem to believe you’re proving. What you’re actually proving is what you really think of Roman Catholic theology and practice. ---
**Author:** ![ScottRP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@ScottRP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScottRP)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/489 "2016-03-10T23:49:07Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > I grew up a member of the Catholic church. Confirmation, Confession, Communion, Ash Wednesday, Holy days of obligation - the works. You speak of Him as if you do not believe that He even hears you? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/490 "2016-03-10T23:51:12Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > If you really knew God and His Son, you would not be speaking ill of them. How exactly is it that you can claim _proper_ knowledge? I was raised very christian, I got to know them extremely well. When I was 9, I prayed to God for wisdom like Solomon. He replied, “Very well, become an Apatheist.” ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/491 "2016-03-10T23:52:47Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Pshaw. That’s nothing. How about [the first “GPS” navigator](http://www.bomfstore.org/Portals/0/liahona.jpg)? You’re not proving anything here with your posts in this thread. > > Well, you are, but it’s not what you seem to believe you’re proving. What you’re actually proving is what you really think of Roman Catholic theology and practice. The Hindu gods apparently had [nukes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmastra). I wonder if Brahma and Yahweh had some kind of MAD thing going on? ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/492 "2016-03-10T23:54:38Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > You speak of Him as if you do not believe that He even hears you? Like **Fear Itself** up there I too have blasphemed the Holy Spirit - “Worthless, goat-felching mother-fucker” I believe was at least part of the tirade at the time. God (the all pissy) keeps bouncing my emails back now. ---
**Author:** ![ScottRP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@ScottRP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScottRP)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/493 "2016-03-10T23:57:05Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > We do know them. That’s why we speak ill. You look down at the one who has given you and your children life? You speak ill of the one who feeds you? And you speak out against the one who died for you? You do not know them. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/494 "2016-03-10T23:58:42Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > You look down at the one who has given you and your children life? You speak ill of the one who feeds you? And you speak out against the one who died for you? You do not know them. Conan’s speech was better: > [@](#): > > Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that two stood against many. That’s what’s important! Valor pleases you, Crom… so grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to HELL with you! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/495 "2016-03-11T00:01:19Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > You look down at the one who has given you and your children life? You speak ill of the one who feeds you? And you speak out against the one who died for you? You do not know them. I’ve seen his works. All the worst of them. All the evil done in His name. All the children starved, made ill, born crippled. All the amputees and burn victims never made whole despite His promise. All the discrimination and hatred done by His followers. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/496 "2016-03-11T00:03:20Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > What exactly was it that you did or say? “I curse the name of the vile shadow known as Yahweh, I curse his concubine Mary the Whore, I curse her vain bastard son Jesus, and I curse the impotent and vulgar Holy Spirit, which has no power in this world or the next.” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/497 "2016-03-11T00:05:43Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > “I curse the name of the vile shadow known as Yahweh, I curse his concubine Mary the Whore, I curse her vain bastard son Jesus, and I curse the impotent and vulgar Holy Spirit, which has no power in this world or the next.” That’ll do it all right. I’m surprised you weren’t on the receiving end of a thunderbolt or a giant hand. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/498 "2016-03-11T00:12:26Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > “I curse the name of the vile shadow known as Yahweh, I curse his concubine Mary the Whore, I curse her vain bastard son Jesus, and I curse the impotent and vulgar Holy Spirit, which has no power in this world or the next.” Just for the record I said the same out loud just now. Nothing. Cell phone lost signal for a few seconds but that seems a pretty weak retaliation. ---
**Author:** ![Oglomott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oglomott/32/3543_2.png) [@Oglomott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oglomott)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/499 "2016-03-11T00:13:14Z")
If he (God) doesn’t keep you healthy and happy, if he doesn’t feed you or pay your bills, or keep bad things from happening to you, then what good is he? How would you be worse off without him? Does he just want my obedience under the threat of death or hell? No thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/500 "2016-03-11T00:15:27Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > Are they showing you photographs of the Holy Spirit? Or any of His works? Maybe not, but you aren’t either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774.md?page=26)