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It is a shame that people do not understand Christianity with the importance it deserves.

It is not about believing or not believing, nor is it about the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is a private institution; the Catholic Church is not Christianity.

It's about the fact that your street is probably named after a Christian saint, that your holidays honor Christian saints and virgins, that your monuments honor Christianity, that your values and culture come from Christianity.

Do you want to renounce your entire past? Do you want to renounce the meaning of everything around you? That's fine with me, but don't force me to do the same.

I am not a believer in the usual sense; I do not believe that Jesus was the son of God, but I do believe that Jesus was a revolutionary for his time and has much in common with Bitcoiners.

My god is a more transcendental figure that arises from the metaphysical doubt that someone must have created this perfect mathematical order in which we exist.

But despite this, I understand and respect Christianity because it is my culture and because it has more good than bad. The word of Jesus is love, forgiveness, compassion, generosity, peace, and harmony. Tell me, what's wrong with that?

And yes, of course, religions have been there to dominate man because man without beliefs and rules is a savage who destroys and kills. Man needs order, moral laws to prevent his decline, and discipline so as not to fall into the temptation of disorder.

Why would you want to neuter your god into the above?

Jesus very clearly said he was the son of God and died for our sins. He rose again on the third day with numerous documentation. To ascribe anything less than Godly to him and discounting everything He said, makes him a footnote in history. I don’t know why anyone would want to do that.

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A footnote in history for someone who changed the religion of an empire like the Roman Empire... allow me to laugh at your comparison.

Jesus is undoubtedly one of the best humans we have ever had, or perhaps the best. Whether you believe it or not is your business, not mine.

I respect him.

I don’t disagree with much of the above. I encourage you to continue to read the New Testament to learn more about the immense nature/historical significance of this Man. Agree to disagree on the Godly part for now, but that is the ultimate question of all of our lives.

Mark 14:61-62

“Again the high priest asked Him, ‘Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?’ And Jesus said, ‘I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.’”

What if the Blessed are the Jews or the house of David?

What if the "Son of Man" is a way of Jesus saying that he is the next step in our evolution? Coming from mankind yet something new. Like the first chicken must have come from something that was only close to being a hen.

These are great questions for you to answer!