Criticism of Jesus
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Jesus is the central figure of Christianity. Christians believe that Jesus was the son of God (see Trinity) as well as sinless. However, many, have criticized the character of Jesus as portrayed in the Gospels.
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[edit] Historical criticisms of Jesus's character
Some Jews believed that Mary had sex with a Roman soldier and when she became pregnant Mary said that she was carrying the son of God in order to hide the relationship.[citation needed]
[edit] Philosophical criticisms of Jesus's character
[edit] Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche criticized Jesus's life by saying that Jesus promoted a "slavelike mentality" that opposed the will to power.
[edit] Thomas Paine
In his The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine states
| It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene. It gives an account of a young woman engaged to be married, and while under this engagement, she is, to speak plain language, debauched by a ghost, under the impious pretence, (Luke i. 35,) that "the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee." Notwithstanding which, Joseph afterwards marries her, cohabits with her as his wife, and in his turn rivals the ghost. This is putting the story into intelligible language, and when told in this manner, there is not a priest but must be ashamed to own it. [Mary, the supposed virgin, mother of Jesus, had several other children, sons and daughters. See Matt. xiii. 55, 56.--Author.]<ref> Paine, Thomas (1795). The Age of Reason, Part 2 Chapter 2</ref> |
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