Jesus debate
First: Catholic Church. I'm not a member. Normally, I don't get involved when someone challenges them. I might favor one or the other, but A) I'm not an activist and B) It's not my job to play judge and/or jury.
Second: Someone trying to prove Jesus didn't exist. Affects me rather strongly; I'm a Christian.
Third: Billions of people are not. Still affects them. Someone is trying to legislate a belief system. We all have them, wether we label them 'God', 'Brahma', 'Zeus' or 'Atheism'. I can't prove God exists to anybody else; an atheist can't prove (s)he doesn't to anybody else. That's not the point. I have a right to spend the rest of my life convinced he does; the atheist has the right to spend the rest of his or her life convinced he doesn't. We each have the right to try to convince anyone who doesn't tell us to 'go away and don't come back'. We each have a legal right to solicite money for our beliefs; if we actually beleive what we say we do, we each have a moral right to solicite money for our beliefs.
Should God ever tell me 'I'm going to be in this park (Naming one) at noon today, tell everybody', I then have a right to prove to everybody God exists. People would also have a right to beleive that I'm crazy - Even after God showed up.
In other words, I have a right to submit proof of my beliefs to anybody and everybody who has not told me to 'Go away and don't come back'. I even have a right to do so with beleifs I (Theoretically) only pretend to hold - A legal right, even though not in my mind a moral one.
Likewise, the atheist has the right to write a scientific paper which proves, attempts to prove or even is a fake that pretends to prove, that Jesus doesn't exist, and to show said paper to me, provided I havn't told said atheist to 'Go away and don't come back'.
In other words, the atheist, or anyone else on the planet, has a right to submit proof, real, imagined or pretended, in support of their beliefs.
And if Luigi Cascioli plastered his beliefs all over every newspaper, television, radio station and even blog in the world that would give him the right to so publish, even if it was every single newspaper, television, radio station and blog in the world, I still would say 'That is his right; however much I abhore what he says, he has a right to say it.'
But what he doesn't have a right to do is to prevent me from believing what I believe, no matter what I believe, without limit.
In conclusion, I'm not asking you to support the Catholic Church. I'm not asking myself to. I'm asking you to support every persons right to believe whatever they want, including the members of the Catholic Church.
I'm not asking for a response, or money, or votes - Just that you think about it.
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