Thursday, December 21, 2006
RU Sirius interviews Brian Flemming
The RU Sirius Show celebrates Christmas this year by having Brian Flemming, the director of the atheist documentary film, "The God Who Wasn't There," on the show to talk about his "Blasphemy Challenge" and his "War On Christmas." And then they play a bunch of hilarious Christmas songs by the likes of Leonard Nimoy, Root Boy Slim, the cast of Bonanza, and Elvis Presley. (A text version of the interview is up at 10 Zen Monkeys.)
BRIAN FLEMMING: The early Christians, the very first Christians, did not believe in a human Jesus... If you look at the beginning of Christianity...nobody was mentioning Bethlehem or Jerusalem as the place where he was crucified. Basically, nothing that you and I would call the story of Jesus was told then. He was a savior who lived up in another realm. He had died and had risen back up to be with his father. All of this took place in an upper realm, not down on earth. Bit by bit, they added historical details.Link
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