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Okay i actually believe that jesus DID exist but he was just a good man. Same with budah and Muhamad. If you could would you go back and put 5 50 caliber rounds into them? I would it would save me from being moched and alot of peoples lives.

This honestly comes across as simply antagonistic and rude to me. I certainly wouldn't do something like that if time travel were suddenly available; in fact, I'd rather go talk to these people and hear their ideas first hand. It's not their fault that their followers over the years developed such bloodlust - their words were misused, and that's no reason to wish to go back and murder them for it. Things like this are why people hate atheists so much.

I agree with this.
If I had the option of going back in time and putting bullets into some people I'd put them in the people that corrupted the church and forced their ideas on others, not those that had good intentions.

No, i would not kill him. I would tell him of what today's world is like religeon-wise. Things like how a (some) people are potentially corrupted by religeon, thinking that "God" will solve all their problems. Say a giant tsunami the size of the CN tower was closing in on the biggest city in the world, but people did nothing but pray to their god for salvation, instead of evacuating the city and potentially saving millions of lives. There would be carnage.

Maybe this would make him think that me should lay low, to help the future. Or maybe is should bring him to the future in my Delorian(spelling?).

Personally, I think that Christianity was just one of those cults that got off the ground. Not good, not bad. It's the people that make it bad--not all of them, but everyone knows who I'm talking about. It's the hypocrites of the group and everyone has them. See above. Sorry but hey, I agree. Why would more violence help our situation today? It wouldn't.


But seriously, talking like this isn't going to get anyone anywhere. OP and chick after him, you sound like that lady that wrote that editorial a few threads up. You sound ignorant and you make the rest of us peaceable atheists look the same. I don't mean to pick on you but busting a cap in someone's beliefs isn't going to help with your being mocked or going to make the countless lives lost due to evil people worth anything.

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If I had a time machine, I wouldn't waste it on fictitious characters (There is no evidence to suggest that Jesus ever existed, and plenty to suggest that he was concocted and cobbled together from prior myths.) I would take down some popes and others who spearheaded inquisitions and crusades. If you really want to stop the carnage later, that's how you do it.

And those of you who are worried about "what will people think if we talk about violence in our own forums!!??" which is essentially the mentality of your comments about how this kind of talk is what gets us a bad image... you need to get your head out of your buttocks.

Xians see us as nasty and hateful because they see anyone who is not in their religious group that way. Monotheistic religions are built to create that kind of attitude in their followers. It doesn't matter what we say, they will still think that way. Self-censoring is one of the stupidest responses to slander that one could ever hope to come up with. That's the response that xian slander is aimed at creating in us, so that we develop a fear of being misunderstood and just shut up.

We can talk about whatever we want in whatever way we want in our own forums. The minute we can't do that, we are beaten. I mean... unless you are really convinced that we are going to take a time machine and go back and kill Jesus. Then maybe you should be concerned...

I wouldn't kill him. Instead, I would kidnap him, tie him up, interrogate him, erase his entire memory, and relocate him to Fiji.

So wait, if you killed Jesus to prevent religious fundamentalism, then religious fundamentalism wouldn't exist, according to you. If that was the case, you wouldn't need to kill Jesus, but then religious fundamentalism WOULD exist, so you WOULD go back in time to kill Jesus, but then religious fundamentalism wouldn't--