eBay Auction Claims You May Be Related to Jesus
This one is great. An eBay powerseller is auctioning off a kinship report that will tell you if you and your loved ones are related to Jesus. Starting price for the rights to the information $49K. (no bidders yet)
I checked eBay and found the auction. Accourding to the posted info "Many millions of people will be pleasantly surprised to find out that they and their families do. Who wants to deliver the good news and let them know?" - Is it good news to be related to Jesus? I mean, can you really be? I thought he was supposed to be divine. Can one be related to God?
The hook to the sale is that the buyer can sell the rights to the kinship report to upcoming mega event like the movie release of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. The info goes on to list the family names of people who are supposedly related to Jesus. (Alas, my name is not on the list.) It also lists "Hollywood stars like Katherine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, Johnny Carson, Bette Davis, Walt Disney, Michael Douglas, Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin, Julia Child, Catherine Oxenberg, and Brooke Shields" Brooke Shields? oh come on.
Who would buy this crap-o-la? I think I'll put this one on my watch list just in case.
Friday, May 21, 2004
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Paul A. Putz · 823 weeks ago
A Scenario
In caves from birth to age three
We were sheltered, abundantly fed, provided visual, aural and tactual stimulus to elicit the smiles of happiness, emotional security and dependency, language, control (terrible twos), sense of cause and effect (associative memory) and the many emotions and behaviors from our genetic endowment and environmental conditioning.
There is little or no conscious memory of these early first three years of life.
After age three
Into a terrifying world of lighting and thunder, raging fires, freezing winters, floods, famine, sickness and disease, poisonous insects, plants, dangerous animals and hostile people.
And a warm and sunny world in a tribal community of sociable people.
Mythology
Our innate cause and effect thought process and the use of hallucinogenic plants produced the mystical gods of lighting, thunder and fire. Gods for the floods, famine, disease, stars at night, the seasons.
The mysterious reproduction of plants, animals and themselves. Gods for every thing, event and thought in the world of primitive people.
Religion
Evolution paradigm:
From the simple to the complex, by replication, mutation and natural selection.
All religions evolved from earlier primitive mythologies to the Christian Hindu Muslim Jewish and other mythologies of today.
A powerful placebo for the emotional security and dependency of our early childhood.
William James - 1842/1910 “The Varieties of Religious Experience” - 1902
“A religious experience brings a new zest for life, assurance of safety and a temper of peace, and in relation to others, a preponderance of loving affection, ranging from mild institutions to wild hallucinations normally called insane.”