If Jesus Never Existed Would There Still Be Love

Dennis Sweatt 

Learning love from the bible, you have to be choosy, avoiding the genocide, infanticide, rape, incest, ethnocentrism and godly hypocrisies. Could I not also learn about love by enacting all the virtues inherent in the execution of the principles of love? If I seek the understanding of compassion, isn't a world of knowledge available in countless written forms, conveying fundamental concepts of the golden rule? Why is the bible the highest culmination of learning when it so riddled with fallacy? 

If Jesus never existed would there not be love? 

Those that lived on this good Earth died without salvation before the coming of Jesus, yet they raised families, learned to write, developed framing techniques, created music and survived long enough as a culture to create multiple forms of religion. Religions that spawned the monotheistic form of worship we debate now.

Certainly the bible cannot be a source of love for your fellow man if god himself lacked the will to 'turn the other cheek.'

In the old testament God's law proclaims that we must put to death any man who joins with another man:

Leviticus. 20:13, If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their blood guiltness is upon them.

Yet in the same scripture of God's unbreakable laws:

Luke. 12:47, The servant who knows the master's will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows.

As a people we have rectified the inhumanity in the owning and punishment of slaves. Yet, right wing christian's chose one of these laws over another to suit there ideological agenda.  

The bible brings nothing to the table of human endeavors that man cannot ascertain for himself. -D. Mitchell Sweatt

  Dr. Michael Shermer, The Science of Good & Evil

"THE SCIENCE OF GOOD & EVIL, the third volume in his trilogy on the power of belief (the first two volumes were Why People Believe Weird Things and How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God), psychologist and historian of science Dr. Michael Shermer tackles two of the deepest and most challenging problems of our age: (1) The origins of morality and (2) the foundations of ethics. Embedded within these two problems are questions that have occupied the greatest minds in history: Is it in our nature to be moral, immoral, or amoral? If we evolved by natural forces then what was the natural purpose of morality?"
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