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To each their own, but I have to flinch when the "good book" is mentioned anywhere, since most people have no clue about where it actually came from, what's actually in it, and the history behind it. If I pointed at the guy on the cross, most anyone would say "That's Jesus". 

But... it's actually an English King, not Jesus...

and that's ignoring the issue of nothing in the 'good book' being from that religion, 

but stolen from older religions instead...  So, yeah. Mentioning 'the good book' makes me wince. A Roman crucifix isn't even a cross, but an X....   

But that's just some stuff... Jesus was a pure Hebrew Jew as well, so he would have looked like Mel Brooks, the director of Space Balls and not an Englishman, which is who is on the cross.

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If you're at all interested in understanding this further, We do actually know at least exactly where the New Testament comes from, as it is the most well documented set of texts in human history. And while the old testament is more debatable, even the earliest iterations we've come across match word for word copies aged thousands of years apart, another feat entirely unheard of in any other set of texts.

Not really the place for this discussion, but it is a fascinating subject.

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true. But the concept of him and being the son of god and god himself changed at least 3 times over the course of development. and it is different depending on the language it's transcribed in and from. The different versions of it are also completely different, with only the stolen content being similar to those found in the original religions they were plagiarized from. The English King was the one that tried to become the first Pope of England, btw. The rest? Just historical facts. And the first book wasn't written for over 600+ years after his death. The dead sea scrolls have problems that are often dismissed, so I won't mention them at all, particularly with them not being anywhere as old as many think they are but rather aged by the environment they were found within (a known fact, but ignored by those pushing their own politics). But yeah, this isn't the place for this.

the "good book" is probably histories biggest plagorism since even the cross is just a plagerised ankh as well as how it took so much from egyptian mythology lol.