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Originally Posted by stone hands
interesting. my genuine followup question to this is(and please correct me if I'm mistaken, I know very little about the meat and potatoes of christianity outside of what can be absorbed via osmosis from living in a western nation and am curious) - it's my understanding the core belief of christianity is that jesus was quite literally the son of god, his teachings and belief that he died for everyone else's sins is predicated that he was a divine being in a human body whos goal was to tell humans the rules of how to live virtuously(paraphrasing). if he wasn't immaculately conceived, and just a regular guy...doesnt that kind of make the entire thing moot as a religious activity?
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Buddhism seems to progress fine following the teachings of a converted one-percenter. I don't think straying from the literal requirements renders the whole thing moot, a lot of people don't take the Bible literally and still gain positives from it.