Arkansas State Rep: ‘If Slavery Were So God-Awful, Why Didn’t Jesus Or Paul Condemn It?’

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157. Oh, I've read the Gospels, and Jesus was a MAJOR asshole.

Why put that poor woman through even a second of duress? Would you expect such behavior from any run-of-the-mill compassionate human being? I don't think so.

Jesus decided to means test this woman. He didn't have pity on her because of her situation or her daughter's crisis. He deigned to help her because "her faith was great," ie: because she thought the megalomaniac Jesus was a god and said so.

As far as the "miracles," give me a break. Miracles? And Santa comes down the chimney. I no more believe Jesus performed miracles than I believe he was god incarnate, if he even existed to begin with. And I've garnered all of that by reading the Gospels numerous times. Why you can't see that escapes me.

"A man who said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher." - CS Lewis

A couple of Lewis' typical false dilemmas in that statement, but if you take it at face value, then, yes, Jesus was not the son of any god, ergo he was not a great moral or human teacher, as his loathsome actions with the Cannanite woman show in spades.