Christianity...Seems legit

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115. Doesn't matter to me one way or another

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There are scholars who think Jesus Christ was an amalgam of several different people. After all, "Jesus" never wrote anything as far as we know, and "Christianity" wasn't formalized for another 400 years after his time. That's plenty of time for the texts to have been rewritten and lost in translation many times over. And the same goes for Moses. These are mostly oral traditions that have been heavily edited over the millennia.

My point is mainly that it is silly for Christians to obsess about the 10Cs when their guy made it clear that his values were more potently expressed through the sermons on the mount and on the plain. If it is all conjured fiction, that doesn't really change anything. These are just value statements, take them or leave them. Some are fairly universal. Some are self-serving for the business enterprise of the churches. Some are self-serving for the politicians of the day. And some really aren't as applicable as they once might have been. Be that as it may, I wonder why "Christians" don't want to own their guy's clearest value statements.