Reply #39: Religion is expressed and imposed upon us everywhere.

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Your example assumes that saying nice things about Jesus as though he were real is innocuous and noncontroversial. While it may be the cultural default position to say that JC's teaching are advanced and ethical and moral, they really weren't if you give them a few moments of thought. Plus it is pretty doubtful he even existed at all. If he did, then then those teachings have dubious authenticity written decades after the fact and exhibiting contradictions with known fact and among the gospels themselves.

This months National Geographic contains a letter from a reader who was outraged that NG archeologists and histories could write about actual evidence that contradicts the book of Matthew. You see, the big examples are well known--the crusades, 9/11 etc.--but religion creeps in everywhere and is usually an enemy of of actual discovery.

Silence equals acquiessence. If someone says JC is the bees knees on a political discussion forum which is open to the public, I have a right and to some extent a duty to express my disagreement and the basis for it. This is a serious and controversial subject even if some would like to treat it like fluff.