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title: The Broken Savior
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date: 2011-10-17
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techne: :incomplete
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episteme: :believed
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# Topics
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- [Tracing the Gospels][]
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- [Tracing Paul][]
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- [On the Crucifixion][]
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- [Living in Hell][]
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- [Divine Command Theory for Atheists][]
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- [An Empty God][]
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# Short FAQ
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### Is this apologetics?
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No. This isn't really about Christianity, just Christ and salvation. I'm not
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interested in politics.
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### Are you a Christian?
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No. I occassionally identify as a Buddhist, but really, I'm just a normal
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non-believing atheist internet crackpot.
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### Then why do you care so much about Christ?
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Dunno. He fascinates me. Maybe I'm even in love with him.
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### Do you think Christ was historical?
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No. The best you can do is reconstruct some plausible minimalistic accounts, but
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they always remind me of the old Radio Yerevan joke:
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> The Armenian Radio was asked: Is it true that Ivan Ivanovich from Moscow won a
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> car in a lottery?
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>
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> The Armenian Radio answered: In principle yes, but it wasn't Ivan Ivanovich
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> but Aleksander Aleksandrovich, he is not from Moscow but from Odessa, it was
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> not a car but a bicycle, and he didn't win it, but it was stolen from him.
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> Everything else is correct.
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I think that any attempt to historize Christ misses the point. He must be
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understood on theological grounds. You must wrestle with mercy and damnation,
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not birth dates and miracles.
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### You're an atheist and you write theology? How does that work?
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[Robert M. Price][] does it too. I don't think that we must believe in God to
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talk about Him. This is not just post-modernism. [Emptiness][] is an important
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aspect of the divine. I also suggest you give my [Living in Hell][] a try.
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