If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early, and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor... We find in the writings of his biographers matter of two distinct descriptions. First, a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstitions, fanaticisms and fabrications... That sect [Jews] had presented for the object of their worship, a being of terrific character, cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust... Jesus had to walk on the perilous confines of reason and religion: and a step to right or left might place him within the gripe of the priests of the superstition, a blood thirsty race, as cruel and remorseless as the being whom they represented as the family God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, and the local God of Israel. They were constantly laying snares, too, to entangle him in the web of the law... That Jesus did not mean to impose himself on mankind as the son of God, physically speaking, I have been convinced by the writings of men more learned than myself in that lore.
[Letter to William Short, 4 August, 1820]
Tag: reason lies skeptic freethinker skepticism new-testament yahweh judaism cruel fake freethought god-of-abraham imposter jehovah
Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.
George BurnsHere too it’s masquerade, I find:
As everywhere, the dance of mind.
I grasped a lovely masked procession,
And caught things from a horror show…
I’d gladly settle for a false impression,
If it would last a little longer, though.
Tag: illusion false comfort impression mask fake
They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?
Jodi PicoultTag: bleeding fake bullets picoult jodi
All these angels start coming out of the boxes and everywhere, guys carrying crucifixes and stuff all over the place, and the whole bunch of them - thousands of them - singing “Come All Ye Faithful” like mad. Big deal. It’s supposed to be religious as hell, I know, and very pretty and all, but I can’t see anything religious or pretty, for God’s sake, about a bunch of actors carrying crucifixes all over the stage. When they all finished and started going out the boxes again, you could tell they could hardly wait to get a cigarette of something. I saw it with old Sally Hayes the year before, and she kept saying how beautiful it was, the costumes and all. I said old jesus probably would’ve puked if he could see it.
J.D. SalingerTag: truth humanity people human-nature fake
Fake sUCKs!
Toba BetaTag: life truth imitation real fake
You don't look fake when you unconsciously pretend.
Toba BetaTag: life pretend fake unconscious
The fake missed sincerity.
Toba BetaTo an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.
Deb CalettiTag: life love revelation fake forgery mistaken
Disinformation is duping.
Misinformation is tricking.
Tag: truth fake disinformation misinformation duping tricking
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